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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fuss. Any attempt to render deliberate justice in a controversial case usually brings on a big fuss. In the court martial of Colonel William Mitchell (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.) there is little doubt that the nine generals who are the august judges, were, if given any instructions at all by the War Department, told to conduct the trial in such a manner that Colonel Mitchell could have no complaint of unfairness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Great Trial | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...Navy Wilbur, James W. Gerard, Brigadier General Herbert M. Lord (Director of the Budget), William Green (President of the American Federation of Labor), Major General John L. Hines (Chief of Staff), Mayor-elect James J. Walker of New York City, Senators Ferris, Fletcher, Robinson of Arkansas, Caraway, Overman, et...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Played for Suckers? | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

Last week George V., modest Imperator et Rex, felt stirring within him that urge toward pheasant shooting which in his youth caused him to become one of the crack bird-shots of the Empire. While the Prince of Wales spurred madly after foxes and Queen Mary occupied herself with vague housewifely duties at Buckingham Palace, King George set out for his annual visit to Elveden Hall in Suffolk, where some of the finest pheasant and partridge shooting in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: George A-Visiting | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...seven days were spent by M. Painlevé in endeavoring to parry the efforts of M. Leon Blum and the Socialists to force a definite expression of the "capital levy" (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) into the bill. Nominally the Painlevé Government is "supported" by the Radical-Socialists, the so-called cartel des Gauches, nominally headed by M. Herriot. Actually M. Blum split off with his Socialists a fortnight ago and had the Government at his mercy, because without his votes Premier Painlevé could not command a majority in the Chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fiscal Babel | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...seat" is worth in excess of $130,000. Should more seats be added, the laws of supply and demand would function to lower that value. No exchange member wishes his "equity" to be affected. Therefore the present excessively heavy movements in securities on the exchange (TIME, Oct. 26, et seq) will continue to take place without an increase in the number of the opulently seated. The Governing Board's proposal was the first of its kind in 44 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No More Seats | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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