Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were only a few matters on which the joint conference had to decide. The provisions for cash to those who would receive less than $50, and paid-up insurance to those credited with greater amounts (TIME, May 5 et pre.) had been settled. The dates of effect were now fixed as Jan. 1, 1925, for insurance certificates and March 1, 1925, for cash. Female yeomen of the Navy and of the Marine Corps and the Porto Rican regiment infantry were included in the benefits of the bill; Philippine Scouts excluded...
Bombs, bullets and blood. Disease, dying and dead. Hunger, horror and hell. Such is a description of Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, in which Hand a revolution has been in progress more than two months (TIME, Feb. 11 et...
These include Debussy's magnum opus, Pelleas et Mélisande, in which Edward Johnson and Lucrezia Bori will probably be the principals. For Jeritza, there is also a German novelty, Jenufa, by Leos Janacek, Czecho-Slovakia. This opera, first heard in Prague in 1916, has since been performed in Vienna and Berlin...
...reminded of their civic duty and the Fascist cudgels and castor oil, panic-stricken electors rushed to the polls to "vote the right way." More than 6,000,000 voters-over 50% of the electorate-turned out-a high record for Italy.* The new electoral system (TIME, May 28, et seq.) is a triumph of the ingenuity of the Latin mind. Broadly speaking, the party receiving the largest number of votes, providing its plurality be one-quarter of the "total vote cast, will receive 356 seats-two-thirds of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The remaining one-third...
There came an end to the treason trial at Munich (TIME, March 3 et...