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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dutchman from Utrecht, and you read something in the Utrechtsch Provinciaal en Stedelijk Dagblad, you know it must be true. Last week this leading provincial newspaper of the Netherlands shocked the rich burghers of quaint old Utrecht-and shocked Europe-by chargin, that a most nefarious secret military agreement was entered into on July 7, 1927, by France and Belgium (with Great Britain sitting in) and is still in force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace & Limburg Threatened | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Plump and ever smiling Gaston "Gastounet" Doumergue, bachelor President of France, had brutal murderesses on his hands last week and didn't know what to do with them. If any woman deserved the bloody office of the guillotine, here seemed four worthy candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Four Furies | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...question, "Don't you know that lightning never strikes twice in the same place?" a typical, tattered, cheerful Neapolitan will reply, "Maybe in your country, Signore (shrug), that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Naples' Numbers | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Look where you might, you saw people whom lots of people say they know-Rex Ellingwood Beach, who writes; Ray Long, who edits; John Golden, who produces; Charles Edwin Mitchell, who banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Fight | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Easterners know that Los Angeles has outstripped San Francisco in population, in recent fame. They may not know that in 1928 San Francisco bank clearings totaled more than $11,000,000, largest west of Chicago, fifth largest in U. S. Of the 100 largest U. S. banks (1928) there were 30 in New York, 11 in Chicago, 8 in San Francisco. Home of Bank of Italy, central bank of the Giannini system. San Francisco shrugs its shoulders at cinema and citrus, argues that from the standpoint of stable commerce, of sound finance, of industrial prosperity, that the glitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Big San Francisco | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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