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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pest) lie on either side of the Danube and form together the Capital (Budapest). Since it was already late, the Royal Opera was indicated and fulfilled its reputation as among the finest in Europe." Vienna, Austria. "Four hours by rail sufficed to reach Vienna between breakfast time and luncheon. Grown used to falling cabinets, I accepted as natural the fact that Chancellor (Premier) Rudolf Ramek had at last been forced to the wall by the many disgruntled office holders whom he has dismissed as a matter of national economy. The entire civil service-the most rapaciously organized bureaucracy in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Quadruple Fall | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...gentlemen who marketed four-fifths of the $7,500,000,000 corporation and government securities placed in the U. S. during 1925, met at Quebec last week as the Investment Bankers Association. They gathered as much for mutual acquaintance as for conference on their peculiar problems. Investment banking has grown to be of vast complexity, and depends much upon personal relations. Issuing houses buy bonds wholesale, which they job to their retail correspondents. These in turn sell such securities directly to investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Investment Bankers | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...appreciation for your courtesy in showing me the remains of the mastodon which you are recovering from the old swamp near Johnstown. The specimen is an unusually perfect and complete skeleton of this interesting, extinct form of life. The individual was an adult in the prime of life, full grown, but not aged and decrepit. Presumably it was bogged down in the swamp and died there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER UNEARTHS MASTODON REMAINS | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

...this pleased mightily Austen's father, the late beloved "Joe" Chamberlain, Lord Salisbury's great Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs. All this training in old school diplomacy seemed strangely passe last week when Austen Chamberlain grown up to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was called upon to deal with that smouldering son of a blacksmith,* Benito Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Mediterranean Conference | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...leaves which drop from trees, grown gray with the dread of winter, are not unique in definition of autumn. Politics, that ancient blade, primps in the forum and takes tea with Lord Teazle now an Irish peer to keep the metaphor. And fall is here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEMOCRACY DULLED | 10/9/1926 | See Source »

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