Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report issued last week by the Ministry of Labor placed the number of miners unemployed as a result of the continued British coal strike (TIME, May 10 et...
...Protest. Goaded by Tory ire, the Baldwin Government addressed a stiff protest to the authorities at Moscow last week complaining that the Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement of 1921 had been violated by the Soviet Government in despatching funds to the support of the British "general strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.). No mention was made of funds now passing from Moscow to London? though £30,000 was thus added to the coal strikers' war chest last week?because the "coal strike" had not yet been officially declared "subversive" (as was the "general strike" but still retained the character...
Lithuanian troops busied themselves last week in expelling across their border a detachment of Polish frontier guards who had wandered into Lithuania while celebrating with valiant potations the Pilsudski coup. (TIME, May 24 et seq., POLAND...
Chile and Peru, despairing of ever holding a satisfactory plebiscite under these circumstances, appealed to the U. S. for mediation (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923, et seq.). As a result, first General Pershing and then General Lassiter were despatched to try and hold an impartial plebiscite. General Pershing returned broken in health and disgruntled at the fierce contention which he encountered. Last week the cables reported further disquieting news...
...casino, the great Caruso who was her Rodolfo, Tosti making great goggle eyes from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black. Yes, La Bohème was good. But so was Romeo et Juliette, which she had studied with Gounod himself-Gounod with his velvet skullcap and his velvet smoking jacket-Romeo et Juliette in which she had made her first successful London appearance with Jean de Reszke her Romeo, his brother Edouard the Friar. And there was Otello, fruit of Verdi...