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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That this view is coming to be adopted even in London was shown when Prime Minister Baldwin recently appointed a commission to report upon the advisability of repealing or modifying the Stevenson Act (TIME, March 5). Already the price of rubber has fallen in anticipation that the Commission will report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Global Rubber War | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Professor Harold J. Laski, famed political economist, released last week at London statistics showing that for the past century and a quarter 60% of all British Cabinet members have been hereditary titled aristocrats. This significant discovery was touted as proving that the British governmental system is not, after all, "democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire Notes | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Dr. Hugh Stott Taylor of Princeton University, in the opinion of his chemist-colleagues, has been engaged in research which was the "most original," and the "most stimulating to further research." Accordingly, he received last week the Nichols Medal, coveted by all chemists. Industrial problems had suggested to Dr. Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nichols Medalist | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Last week President William Benson Storey of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Co., Chairman of the Committee on Uniform Express Contracts of American Railway Executives, announced flatly: "We are going to consider within the next week at a meeting in New York whether to go further with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Baggage Plan | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

One supposes that Claire will have to content herself with one of the numerous flood-created bachelors who stalk woman-hungry through the book; but the last page of this palpitating yarn brings a grand climax that sends the reader's imagination reeling off upon further and seemingly inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Flood | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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