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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the Reparations Commission, the Empress Zita has every right to dispose of the precious stones in any way she sees fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Zita's Jewels | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

...iron worker and started life as a laborer. His first important political appearance was at Milan when he was beaten in a parliamentary election by a rich opponent. So angry was he that history records that " he broke the ballot boxes in a fit of petulance." This untoward act caused the police to be inquisitive and Mussolini left for Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Benito's Birthday | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...result of the rural credits discussion in Washington last year was the authorization of a joint commission of Senators and Representatives, whose duty it would be to ascertain why it was that 9,678 banks in this country eligible for membership in the Reserve System, had not seen fit to join it. The commission will travel into every state in the Union and hold hearings in all significant banking centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Town Banks vs. Country | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...most intelligent class of readers in New York"-certainly had not made such a mistaken inference. "From hundreds of pictures at hand, the ones most nearly corresponding to the wired-in reports of writers and artists at the ringside were chosen and details from other pictures were selected to fit the care fully worded reports. "This was all done at great cost to the newspaper." So successful was the attempt, added the American, that "the method will undoubtedly become an important part of modern journalism in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Telegraphako! | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...incensed because The New York Times printed 19½ columns of fight news and 6 inches (about y⅓$ of a column) of news on the important conference of the National Education Association in San Francisco. The slogan of the Times is "All the news that's fit to print," and the Monitor commented: " A curious conception of what is ' fit to print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Telegraphako! | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

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