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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ripped at last, the envelope gave up this piteous sentence: "I feel myself without help and that my countrymen regard me as a traitor to Irak and a servant of the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAK: Traitor | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Threats and rumors of a sensational libel suit refocussed French attention last week on one of the most spectacular figures in the National Assembly, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Senator of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Senator Maurice | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Lady Astor, famed for Parliamentary courage, canceled an engagement to fly with 100 members of both Houses of Parliament last week in Britain's new passenger dirigible R-101. Into the Noble Lady's breach stepped Labor's Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, M.P. Then rain canceled the flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament Week | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Prime Minister SirAbdul Muhsin shot and killed himself in the presence of his family at Bagdad last week. He left a sealed letter telling why, which his son refused for several days to open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAK: Traitor | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...reputatation with women is peculiar. He was cited as co-respondent (together with Augustus John, the British painter) in the famed Gough divorce case in London. He once fought a duel over a horse, refused to fight another duel with Jeweler Cartier for a fancied insult. He was sued last year for accidentally peppering a fellow grouse-shooter with birdshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Senator Maurice | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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