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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general strike and 750,000 miners remained out until the last bitter weeks of the coal strike? To answer these unpopular questions, Chancellor Churchill sat down four square on his facts last weak, presenting his budget to the Commons as the one logical answer to a problem stated by Fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strike Budget | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...Sing Sing Death House last week sat Thomas ("Red") Moran, awaiting the electric chair. To visitors, Convict Moran made complaint, lamenting, however, not his fate but his neighbors. On the one hand he is flanked by Convict Julius Gibbs, subject to fits of epilepsy. On the other he has Convict Adam Nappe, who speaks no English, with whom no hours can be whiled away in converse. Disgusted, Convict Moran said: "This is a fine combination to be up against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canes | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...book they have tea in the nursery, go to school, behave like English children. The close and careful breeding that feeds the playing fields of Eton is theirs. Later the restraint of this upbringing makes differing marks on their characters. Mollie foregoes her music and submits to fate and a father who tends his children without tenderness. Margaret's nerves, sharpened by inhibitions, end by shattering her mind. Wilfrid, a normal eldest son, inherits peace and his father's lands. Robin, who gets drunk too often, marries a country wench and offers succor to Angela when her family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wooden Indians | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...advantage of telephone conversation is the fact, that the ONE at the other end cannot see you. Half the time, much to the disgust of your family, you go to the telephone in kimono and cold cream. Disillusion would certainly be the fate of the ONE at the other end if he could see his darling with shining face, her hair done up in inartistic Western Electrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libel | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...room-mate stole out, very sadly, pitying his cruel fate...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

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