Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make known my personal opinion on this problem." To the old Feldmarschall went Chancellor Müller. He recalled that the President is in duty bound to promulgate such measures as the Reichstag's ratification of the Young Plan, pointed out that this act of promulgation might render even Paul von Hindenburg liable to be clapped into jail under the clause of the "Liberty Law" which provides penal servitude for officials who pledge Germany to her Reparations payments. Striking result: Hero Hindenburg dropped his neutrality, publicly denounced the offending clause of the "Liberty Law" as "a personal and irrelevant...
Sixty-six Jews were butchered at Hebron. The Arab prosecutor did not seem to want to probe into that. To simple peasant witnesses he addressed questions remarkably prolix and abstruse, double questions, contradictory questions. Even so the witnesses managed to testify that they had seen Sheik Taleb Maraka publicly inciting Arabs to massacre, shouting that the faithful could settle any debts they might owe to Jews by slaughtering their creditors. One witness who thus testified was Superintendent Cafferata of the local British Police. When the Arab prosecutor sought to question Mr. Cafferata only on irrelevant topics, Mr. Justices Corrie...
...Never!" shouted the Sheik, smacking his fist on the dock. "Never in all my life have I led or addressed a crowd. ... I did not even learn of what happened until I read the police reports...
...vacancy among the three Regents of Rumania (TIME, Oct. 21), a vacancy which she had dearly coveted. As Her Majesty's special train chuffed off toward Balcic all Rumania gasped at an interview blazoned above her name by the Royalist newspaper Universal: "The royal family does not even know what it means to strive for honors and privileges. We do not need such distinctions. We are where we are to do our duty. That is all." Followed a charge that Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu had offered to wangle the election of Her Majesty to one of the Regency...
...France to complete the stabilization of the franc with a $75,000,000 loan in return for a semimonopoly in French matches. Although Herr Kreuger is always willing to make a large loan investment in order to eliminate competition, he has also succeeded in reducing competition to a minimum even in Great Britain, Germany and Italy, where no government-monopoly has aided him. In this country, his International Match Co. controls about 75% of all match production...