Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steel Institute. Will H. Hays, famed deus ex machina of the U. S. cinema industry, took his waspy, wide-eared self aboard the Leviathan, last week, and sailed for France. He was not fleeing from further Senate questioning as to his onetime stewardships of Republican campaign funds (TIME, March 12 et seq.). He went to dicker with the newly created French State Board of Film Censors (TIME, Feb. 27) which has intimated that it will license U. S. films for sale in France only upon condition that the U. S. buy a proportionate number of French films for exhibition...
...next engagement of the Walker act is on April 9, when Mayor Walker will, for some reason, be headman at the ceremonious unveiling of the Stone Mountain Memorial at Atlanta, Ga., to the armies of the Confederacy.-TIME, March...
...radical a shift in Egyptian politics came, and could come, only after a prolonged and bitter crisis (TIME, March 12 et seq). The previous Prime Minister, Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha?like King Fuad a British puppet?was forced to resign when he attempted to foist upon Egypt a British-dictated treaty of "alliance" which was actually one of "subjugation...
...spruce, dynamic Amir Amanullah of pugnacious and independent Afghanistan continued, last week, his triumphal visit in the British Isles (TIME, March 26). Featured were several new adventures designed to bring the Orient sovereign into close and striking contact with Occidental ideas and might...
Charles E. Brickley (famed Harvard football captain, fullback and dropkicker of 1914) was sentenced to 15 months in jail for running a bucketshop (TIME, March 12). The judge, the prosecuting attorney, the assistant court clerk and Mr. Brickley's counsel were all Harvard men. Said Mr. Brickley to the judge: "I want to thank you for the fairness and consideration shown me during my trial. I am very sorry that anyone lost money through my trading in the stock market, and if the wheel of fortune ever turns my way again I hope to be able to pay back...