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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the Joint Board and as practical adviser to the Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Eberle must design the remedy for a naval ill of which the chief peculiarity is need for more protection from the Army. The report which he receives is confidential but its main features are already known from a "critique" held by the umpires last week. Assembled at the Colon Y. M. C. A., 400 officers heard the critique conducted by Admiral Robert E, Coontz, Commander of the U. S. Fleet, and Major General John L. Hines, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army. Admiral...
...indicative of the Labor Party's policy: "Capital Levy is dropped pro tem. To be brought up later but not to be introduced until after the permanent staff of the Treasury have been consulted. In foreign policy the Premier intends to use the League of Nations as his main instrument to establish and maintain world peace and thereby to set an example to other nations. He will also vigorously ostracize secret diplomacy. In general his policy will be to promote the welfare of the workers "by fair and constitutional means...
Socialists. That the Socialists nearly sacrificed the fruits of the Italian victory of Vittorio Veneto* by embracing and embroiling the country in Bolshevism has been the main fact which both Fascismo and Constitutionalism have impressed upon the country. On account of having used considerable violence when they seized power in some provinces after the War, and because the new electoral law will operate against them, Socialism is considered a dead letter in Italy...
...Jacqueline Logan and Antonio Moreno to prove her father's fire-fighting apparatus the most efficient in the world. Since everyone but the villain had been trying to prove this throughout the picture, it was the normal solution. The earlier stages of the action, dealing with life in a Main Street Manufacturing Company, are only mildly arousing. Miss Logan is still one of the prettiest in all the cinema seraglio...
...There are two main objections to the recognition of the Soviet government propaganda in this country a bad thing if true, but probably exaggerated. Moreover it has failed to fulfill its informational obligations by repudiating its debts. That, however, is just a case of not having the money with which to pay, a situation which exists in more than one European country...