Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed by a majority of 215 the Conservative Government's highly reactionary Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 30), drafted to prevent the recurrence of the British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29, 1926, et...
Upon the Ile de France have labored Pierre Patou, Lalique (perhaps the most brilliant living worker in glass), Sue et Mare (among the smartest decorators in Paris), the daring landscapist Jaulmes, the sculptor Pommier and other chief exponents of L'Art Moderne. What did Mr. Herrick find they had done upon the Ile de France...
...fact that this Salon had been done by Pierre Patou in three shades of soft grey Pyrenees marble, with strange, geometric, golden glass lighting by Lalique. On Sunday Mr. Herrick found that he might worship in a chapel, two stories high, done with emboine panels upon lemonwood by Nelson et Simon, who had placed upon the altar an ultra-modern crucifix in molded glass, blazing from concealed lamps...
...Reds." Sir Austen ChamberIain was known to have made every effort to persuade M. Briand and more especially Dr. Stresemann last week that France and Germany ought to support Great Britain in her severance of relations with Russia (TIME, May 16 et seq.). Sir Austen succeeded only so far as to get Dr. Stresemann to give newsgatherers an unsigned interview in which he said: "It is a great pity that some citizens of Soviet Russia seem to be doing unwise things which strengthen the hands of their enemies...
...prevent a recurrence of these battles of his youth that Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler (see front cover) reached Tientsin, last week, commanding 1,800 U. S. marines previously stationed at Shanghai. He knew that the Southern Nationalist Chinese armies were steadily advancing on Peking (TIME, March 28 et seq.); but whether "Boxer"-trouble was brewing again he could not be certain. From Washington, President Calvin Coolidge ordered last week that no chances be taken, that the U. S. Legation and all U. S. citizens be removed to the port of Tientsin from inland Peking, should that city be seriously...