Word: marly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, defended the increased naval appropriations (TIME, Mar. 23) in a spirited speech. He went over a lot of old ground and became interesting only when he arrived at the tail end of his speech and found himself at Singapore. He saw no offense to Japan in building the base. He accused the Labor Party of dropping the project as a gesture to get other countries to cooperate in universal disarmament. He quoted an American as saying: "When you cooperate with people, you find they do the operating while...
Chamber. In the Chamber of Deputies, the Cardinals' manifesto (TIME, Mar. 23) was debated. The assembly became combustible when the Premier said that the policy of withdrawing the French Embassy to the Vatican could be criticised, as it had been by M. Briand (TIME, Feb. 2), but that the Government's policy had nothing to do with religion. He went on logically to denounce the organized Sunday demonstrations against the Government and the lois laïques governing the relations between Church and State. The Assembly exploded when the Premier said...
Within the past week, Minister President Held of Bavaria girt up his loins preparatory to running in the Presidential election (scheduled for Mar. 29) for the Bavarian People's Party, while General Erich von Ludendorff, succumbing to the urge of his master, Adolf Hitler, would-be imitator of Mussolini, threw his helmet into the ring for the "Volkisch" Party, extreme Monarchists...
...effect of seven candidates running for the Presidency has done little to alter the situation (TIME, Mar. 23), except to make it practically certain that none of them will obtain a plurality of the total vote. Therefore, it seemed probable that there will not be an elected President of Germany until Apr. 26, when a second election requiring only a relative majority will be held...
...Peking, the body of Dr. Sun Yatsen, who died a fortnight ago (TIME, Mar. 23), was removed to the Rockefeller Hospital, embalmed, transferred to the hospital chapel for a private Christian burial service...