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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elio found innumerable polite reasons why Bolivia should not avail herself of offers of mediation made by 1) the Pan-American conference on arbitration and conciliation at Washington; 2) the council of the League of Nations sitting at Lugano, Switzerland; 3) the permanent Pan-American conciliation commission at Montevideo; 4) King Alfonso XIII of Spain; 5) Pope Pius XI; 6) President Irigoyen of Argentine; 7) President Machado of Cuba...
...bust came, last week, when Britannia's owners, the Inveresk Pulp & Paper Co., found that the 33 pages of advertising per issue with which the magazine was launched had shrunk to four. Tactful requests that Editor Frankau modify his Lunatic-Fascist policies caused him to apply for an injunction restraining Inveresk Ltd. from interfering with his conduct of their paper. Since the editor had a contract, the only thing to do was buy him off. He held out last week for ?12,000-nearly $60,000-and finally got it. Wherefor the smug airs, the sherry...
...sleek, masterful Sir Joseph Ward completed, last week, a remarkable comeback to Power. He was last Prime Minister from 1906 to 1912. Prior to the Parliamentary Election of last month he welded disaffected groups into the new Union Party (TIME, Nov. 26), and when ballots were counted was found to control only two less Parliamentary seats than the Reform Party of Prime Minister Joseph Gordon Coates...
Thomas Woodrow Wilson found out that it may be a mistake to return from Europe with new-fangled ideas, and so, last week, did King Amanullah of Afghanistan...
...Arnoux Peters. He is a robust, dark fellow, as conservative in appearance and dress as a discreet haberdashery poster. In 1922 he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., where he was voted "Most Musical" and "In Worst with the Faculty." Then he took his banjo to Yale, found plenty of pianos there, alternately drew for the Yale Record and devised original syncopation. At the end of his freshman year he left college, subsequently studied at the Yale art school and Manhattan's Art Students League for a period of a month apiece. These months he considers wasted...