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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleased with the agreeable contrast in the portrayal of Michael Hare and his luxurious surroundings on Fifth Avenue. But it is easy to become impatient, as unimportant characters and situations are introduced merely for the purpose of creating new pictures, making it hard to follow a main thread through the maze of deviating portrayal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF - REVIEWS | 5/4/1923 | See Source »

...Princeton invasion opens officially today when a party consisting of two riggers, two shells, and second assistant manager Blanchard leaves the South Station this evening. The main body, consisting of the University and Freshman squads with two substitutes each together with the coaches and manager staff, is due to go tomorrow night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORES TAKE MEASURE OF CREW C | 5/2/1923 | See Source »

...several delegations of the contending parties arrived in Lausanne for the second installment of the Lausanne Conference. The main issues which are to be discussed have been thrust into almost indecent obscurity by the electrifying gyrations caused by the announcement of the Chester Concessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Turks Say Chester. But What of It? | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...main points in the budget are: a reduction from 5s to 4/6d in the pound on the income tax, a 50 percent reduction on corporation tax, a decrease in taxation on beer by 1d a pint, reduction of postal charges. No new taxation was introduced. The estimated revenue for the coming year is approximately $3,806,025,000 as against approximately $4,235,103,750 for last year's estimated revenue. The expenditure is figured at the approximate figure of $3,797,264,400 against last year's $4,235,103,750. Thus the Treasury has a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: The Budget | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...main differences between these two Slav States is that Czecho-Slovakia is the enthusiastic exponent of Pan-Slavism, (a doctrine purporting to join up the Slavonic races, which include the Russians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Bulgars, Serbs, Croats) while Poland, remembering her fate as a part of Russia, is strongly against a movement that might eventually resubject her to Russian authority. Another important difference, intimately related to the Pan-Slav question, is that Czechoslovakia is opposed to the award of Galicia to Poland, because such an arrangement interferes with Czecho-Slovakian plans for a Pan-Slav corridor reaching from Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: CZECHO-SLOVAKIA | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

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