Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill presented his last budget (TIME, May 3), Great Britain was on the verge of her greatest industrial travail of the present century, the vast and paralyzing general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) and the long drawn out nagging coal strike which began at the same time and dwindled to a close TIME, Nov. 29) without ever being formally "settled." What effect have these two stupendous, unprecedented strikes had on the exchequer? How deep must British taxpayers dig into their pockets this coming twelvemonth to pay the piper because 6,000,000 workers...
...program will be: Harvard March "Our Director" Bigelow Symphony No. 12 (B-flat Major) Haydn Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, opus 18 Rachmaninoff (First Movement--Moderato) Mr. Slontmsky, soloist Intermission Soprano Solos a. Recit et Air from "L'Eafant Prodigue". Debussy Mr. Slonimsky, conducting b. Impressions Slonimsky Le Fuite de la Lune Silhouettes Valse Lento Delibes La Fille du Regiment (entracte) Donizetti Rakoezy March (from "Damnation of Faust") Berlioz Fair Harvard
...Chiang Kaishek, Generalissimo of the Cantonese Nationalist Army which has conquered the Southern half of China (TIME, Sept. 20 et seq.), and captured Shanghai (TIME, March...
Charles A. Whelan, President of the United Cigar Stores Co. of America: "My daughter Clara, mother of five and wife of my able vice president, John T. Cassidy, is a businesswoman. Her company 'Clio et Claire' does a nice business in cosmetics. Last week I was said to have chuckled when she announced: 'It is ridiculous to say that women must always affect the same makeup. With some frocks, for example, red lips and pale cheeks only clash. Why shouldn't women paint their lips green? Or blue...
...convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly in a protest against the prevailing badness", Sinclair Lewis et...