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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill presented his last budget (TIME, May 3), Great Britain was on the verge of her greatest industrial travail of the present century, the vast and paralyzing general strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) and the long drawn out nagging coal strike which began at the same time and dwindled to a close TIME, Nov. 29) without ever being formally "settled." What effect have these two stupendous, unprecedented strikes had on the exchequer? How deep must British taxpayers dig into their pockets this coming twelvemonth to pay the piper because 6,000,000 workers...
...national reserves, the chancellor figures he can not only meet the deficit but set aside $325,000,000 for debt reduction. Chancellor Churchill spoke proudly: "Even in the past wretched year we were able to save and augment our capital and still retain our position as the greatest creditor nation and financial centre of the world." Citizens, burdened by ponderous taxes, would not be consoled...
...month materialized yesterday with the arrival in the Yard of J. L. Johnston, of the studio staff. In order to give every student who forsees for himself a future on the silver screen, every opportunity to sell his personality, ability, and appearance to the representatives of America's second greatest industry, the tests at Harvard will be held on Tuesday, April 26, instead of Saturday, April 23, as previously announced...
...investigation by Dr. Donald Gregg has brought to light the careers of over two hundred Lampoon editors subsequent to their abandonment of the task of tickling the undergraduate risibilities. Journalism and the law have claimed the greatest number of the college humorists, which would appear to indicate that the faculty of favile use, on abuse, of the English language determined the course into which these gentlemen directed their life efforts. Architecture, strangely enough, has attacked the next largest total, possibly, the four years of practice in reproducing the structural designs in the Yard created a mystic urge to imitate...
...doctors had ever heard of the solar plexus before that scrap, but ever since he floored me with that left of his it has become a catch word in boxing. In spite of the fact that I held the title five years after that I really had my greatest fight with Jefferies in 1901. Fitzsimmons wouldn't give me a return fight so I had to wait until Jefferies took it away from him in order to get another shot at the Championship. I was ten years older than Jefferies and hadn't been fighting for four years...