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...Greece, public opinion flew into a virulent huff. The Government sent a stiff note to Turkey, charging that country with a flagrant breach of engagements entered into under treaties affecting Grece. It was further alleged by the Greek Government that the Mixed Commission, which is overseeing the transfer of Greek and Turk to their respective lands, have decided that the Patriarch was unexchangeable*. Acting President Paul Koundouriotis canceled a diplomatic reception. As a sign of grief, Parliament was adjourned. Conscripts of the 1923 class, whose disbandment was ordered, were commanded to stay with the colors. War murmurs were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Exchangeable? | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...Russia. The agreement was initialed by them. For some reason the Chinese Cabinet delayed its acceptance of the agreement. On Sunday, M. Karaghan rather undiplomatically told Mr. Wang that the agreement must be accepted within three days, or Russia would withdraw. On Wednesday, the Chinese Cabinet, ostensibly in a huff, told Mr. Karaghan to leave the country. On Thursday, M. Karaphan not having left, the President of China transferred the conduct of the negotiations from Mr. Wang to Dr. Wellington Koo. But the prospects for settlement were no better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Celestial Relations | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

Katherine Emmet did not suggest very clearly the granite substratum of the mother's character. Louise Huff, recently redeemed from the cinema, played the fiancee. She called her aunt "Ontie," furnished moments of genuine beauty, but appeared somewhat amateurish in her emotional passages. Alan Birmingham, Gilbert Emery and Arthur Shaw labored to inject life into their parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

Other contributors to the bill are Eddie Borden, in a humorous hodge-podge of jokes and jazz music; Grace Huff, in a one-act playlet entitled "Just Like a Man,' and Charles Bensee and Florence Baird in a laughable little skit, "Songlflage." Frankie Wilson is also seen in an unusual series of "mirage" posings while Burt Gordon and Fone Ford entertain in a "Recital Classique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ford Sisters Attraction at Keith's | 6/3/1920 | See Source »

...support of the oft recurring argument over the relative merits of western and eastern football, George Huff, athletic director at the University of Illinois, recently said to The Wake: 'I think the best eleven of the Big Ten for the last four or five years would have beaten the best eastern eleven. I do not mean decisively, but beaten it. By eastern eleven I also exclude those teams recruited by means no longer approved, but include Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SPEED THE DAY" OF EAST VS. WEST FOOTBALL--TRIBUNE | 2/28/1920 | See Source »

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