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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When M. Poincaré strode into Parliament to announce the program of his Cabinet, tremendous cheers rose from the Right and Centre, but Socialists of the Left sought to embarrass the Prime Minister by demanding a vote on a point of order before he had time to open his lips. Scowling, the "Lion of Lorraine" consented to the vote, won by 335 to 147, and then launched into a great and moving political declaration. His two paramount objects would be, he said, first to put through revision of the Dawes Plan, and thereafter to secure final ratification by Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Unknown Government | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...There must be a Government by tomorrow!" cried M. Poincaré. "It is Armistice Day and a Government must honor the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Unknown Government | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Dryly, M. Briand replied, "Why not, mon vienx, an Unknown Government to honor the Unknown Soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Unknown Government | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Seldom has a more terrific tempest been brewed in any teapot than that which perturbed all Germany last week, when the Reichstag convened for its Winter Session. The question at issue transcended Cabinet lines. The chancellor, Socialist Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cruiser A | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...most farsighted, Chicago's famed Julius Rosenwald, of Sears, Roebuck. Hereafter, part of the Julius Rosenwald fund will be devoted to the physical welfare of the middle class, largely through the establishment of pay clinics. The work will be under the administration of Dr. Michael M. Davis, able Manhattan clinical expert, late of the Rockefeller Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Modest & Proud | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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