Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week, Publisher William Randolph Hearst went far toward quoting the market price which he considers sound. Testifying before a Senate special committee (see THE CONGRESS) he named "$15,000 or $16,000" as the purchase price of the recent Hearst series of pseudo-Mexican documents purporting to show that huge bribes were ordered "paid" to four U. S. Senators (TIME...
Virtually no notice has been taken by sober publications of the huge Hearst headlines regarding anti-U. S. activity in Mexico. The New York World expressed itself in a derisive cartoon; demanded editorially to know why, if Hearst held authentic documents regarding Mexican bribery of the U. S. press, all names and other possibilities of verification were blacked out when facsimilies appeared in Hearst papers. Mr. Hearst thus dodged his only chance to prove the truth of his "news", and by so doing to force reputable publications to print it or such facts about it as their investigators could assemble...
...Franco-Jugoslav treaty of friendship and accord (TIME, Dec. 5); 3) Listened to the report of the League's Opium Commission which was read by its rapporteur, white-haired Senator Raoul Dandurand of Canada. He, trenchant, charged that traffic in illicit drugs is conducted by persons "with huge financial resources" in nearly every land. The Council then voted impotent concurrence with recommendations made by Senator Dandurand as to how this traffic might be suppressed; 4) Made public, in emasculated form, the second part of the report presented last September by the League of Nations Advisory Committee empowered to investigate...
...know. He said I must have been crazy." At London correspondents discovered, last week, one Thomas William Whitman, an Englishman who had just arrived from Africa after successfully deserting from the French Foreign Legion. "We were punished by Legion officers," he said "for slight mistakes with lashes from huge rawhide whips...
...longer can America think of the English menace that has saddled it with the incubus of a huge navy. Such advances as those of Lord Bridgman, calculated as an antidote to the bad taste of the international deadlock at Geneva, are ignored. Although the scope of resultant feeling is not determinable at present, it is already clear that Great Britain has given the cut direct to her cruisers, while the United States has given it to Great Britain...