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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning after the Cabinet had squeaked through by two votes, M. Poincaré reminded correspondents with characteristic bravado of his threat when he last took office (TIME, Aug. 2 , 1926), namely, that so long as the Chamber gave him a majority of even one vote he would not trouble to resign...
...Fahrstüle is void, and branded all such prohibitions as "obsolete and anti-social." This ruling may be an opening wedge to compel landlords and employers to provide better living conditions for domestic servants. Even in modern Berlin apartment buildings, backstairs are unlighted, and despite the long German winter, maids' rooms are nearly always without heat...
...from the Japanese port authorities the tramp steamer cleared, wallowed out into the Gulf of Chili, and steamed the short 100 miles to the Chinese port of Teng-chowfu in Shantung. There Chang landed amidst a rabble army of soldiers who had served him as war lord. All night long they labored, with many a grin, unloading from the tramp steamer rifles, machine guns, light artillery...
...consolidation of his forces could not be prevented by the Nationalists, because he had put in at a point on the Shantung peninsula which is fenced off from the rest of China by an expeditionary force of Japanese marines. These tough sliteyes have been where they are a long time, and, as in Nicaragua, "the purpose of the Marines is to protect lives and property," according to the Imperial Government at Tokyo. During the week only one small body of 7,000 Nationalist troops were able to maneuver around the Japanese within striking distance of Chang & mercenaries...
...China, one Han Yu-ming, a stone cutter, found a small sigil in the foothills of the Taihang mountains. It evidently had belonged to a priest long since dead, for lo! as Han stooped to pick it up, a vision came to him. He heard a voice like the Voice of Thunder. The Voice told Han that the sigil would cure diseases, that soon a leader would come...