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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the Peace Treaty of Trianon (closed between Great Britian, France. Italy, Japan, as well as the Associated Powers and Hungary) the greatest part of South-East Hungary, the Historic Transylvania with more than 1,700,000 Hungarians was given to Roumania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUNGARIAN SITUATION OUTLINED BY DR. CZAKO | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

...greatest authorities in the field of economics in the world, in the person of Dr. Gottlieb Habberler of the University of Vienna, will speak this morning on "Statistics and Index Numbers." Those interested in the subject can hear the lecture at 10 o'clock in Economics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

...books--satirical description of customs and mauners--are most, valuable. For that kind of work experience on a large daily newspaper, before the mast, or behind the bar is the best kind of preparation. But at present the interest is more inward. The proper preparation is to acquire the greatest cultural tradition possible. The day of bright, gifted auto-didacts is over. The profound assimilation of a little experience is now more valuable than hurried acquaintance with a great many sharp unrelated facts. The literature of super reporting from time to time can rise to a virtuosity that gives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thornton Wilder Sees Development of Narrative Novel Into New Form-Calls Style "By-Product of Personality" | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

Eighteen thousand warriors?the greatest single army in recent Mexican history ?were rumbling out of Mexico City in freight cars, led by ex-President General Plutarco Elias Calles, to do battle with the rebels in Durango, Chihuahua and Sonora. As bombing planes roared into the zenith, as President Herbert Clark Hoover hastened the despatch of 10,000 Enfield rifles and multitudinous rounds of ammunition to the Mexican government, as despatches announced that poison gas would be used, God Mexitl must have ruefully reflected that his own symbolic arms are a shield made of reeds tufted with eagle's down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Chaliapin with accompaniments. Moussorgsky's stark music is played in the prettied version of Rimsky-Korsakov. The chorus, the cast all save Chaliapin, sing in Italian. He, proudly a Russian, sings the language in which Boris was written, the language of the down trodden peasants. Being Chaliapin, the greatest of living singing-actors, he dominated last week as always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rumor Confirmed | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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