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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mission Interalliće du Cōntrol des Usines et Mines) refers to an agreement signed by German industrialists last Fall (TIME, Dec. 3) with the French Government and since renewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Conference | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...stain which Benito was endeavoring so nobly to remove from the Black Shirts (the Fascisti) was made by the supposed murder of Deputy Giacomo Matteotti by some Fascisti (TIME, June 23 et seq.). The whole story has now come to be known as the "Matteotti Affair," and with that affair Benito was over-busy during the past week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Great Wash | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

Declining to countenance the notes sent by the Powers to the Chinese Government with reference to the recent Sino-Russian agreement over the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, June 9, et seq.), the Chinese and Russians selected their quotas for the Directorate of the railway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Railway Rumpus | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

House of Commons. In spite of the fact that the Conservatives, joined by 18 Liberals and 5 Laborites, voted solidly for Imperial preference, 4 of the resolutions passed by the Imperial Conference (TIME, Oct. 1 et seq.) were defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Parliament's Week: Jun. 30, 1924 | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...country his speeches were direct, forceful and efficient; but he was no orator, and no man has ever rightly said of him that he was in any sense demagogic. He hated publicity and one of his favorite phrases was: "I don't think we need publish this urbi et orbi." His ability at quoting the classics was remarkable. In a famous letter to Lord Rosebery he states that he does not wish to become Leader of the Opposition, but that he would accept if the choice fell upon him. "If it should turn out otherwise, I should exclaim with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Jun. 23, 1924 | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

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