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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Shearer is not going to be made a scapegoat while some of his pious critics go scot free is beyond reasonable doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Esthonia Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Irish Free State Italy Jugoslavia Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Rumania Spain Sweden Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Little Cornerstone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...shouted in alarm, women and children screamed. The glass top of the coffin was smashed in. Inside lay the false Blackamon, dead, his hands and face horribly gashed by broken glass. Losing his nerve in the midst of his performance, he had evidently, vainly, fought to free himself from being smothered alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Corpse Blackamon | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...jungle, crossed by the Equator and watered by the Congo River. It was long-bearded, farsighted, savagely-flayed Leopold II of Belgium who first saw in the Congo district an opportunity for taking up the White Man's burden and the Black Man's resources. Leopold created the Congo Free State, fought with natives and slavers, built railroads, finally (1908) made the Congo a Belgian colony as his gift to the Belgian people. In 1909 Leopold began an attempt to interest British capital in the Congo, sent one Dr. Max Horn to Lord Leverhulme. Dr. Horn pointed out that many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lever Bros. | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

North Atlantic codfish frolicked free last week, their doom of cream sauce deferred, while four of Gloucester's fleetest fishing schooners were racing inshore to settle old rivalries. Gloucester folk, proud of their schooners, enthusiastic about this race of the last genuine U. S. sailing ships, had donated $20,000 to recondition canvas and repay owners for lost fish. Thousands lined the shore to watch the stanch, full-rigged craft course twice around an 18-mile triangle into the harbor. In the first two races, gentle inshore winds were insufficient to drive the schooners to the finish within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cream Sauce Deferred | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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