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The Voice did not answer, and on the Democratic side, foxy little Field Marshal Simmons began massing his troops behind the Borah irregulars to capture perhaps not only Flexible Tariff Ridge but some of the industrial salients-Chateau de Steel, Fort Cement, Brickopolis, Woolensville, perhaps even Manufacturing City.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Camp Trouble | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Rectifying the Line. Before Flexible Tariff Ridge, where the protectionists awaited the assault, Republican leaders voluntarily abandoned a salient which they feared would fall. The line authorizing the President to increase tariffs after investigating "conditions of competition" in U.S. markets between home-made and imported goods, was given up. General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: First Assault | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

While troops were reported massing last week on both sides of the Sino-Russo boundary, the Soviet Government signified it would do its utmost to prevent their clashing, despatched from Moscow by air Railway Commissioner L. B. Serebriakov to confer with China's Foreign Minister. Onlookers wondered how oldtime Bolshevik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: C. E. R. Seized | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Whether or not Mr. Thomas' point is true must be left to the courage and the conscience of the individual. His argument, as presented in a play, is formidably tedious. His central character is a Senator, of liberal tendencies, against whom the drys are massing fat rolls of slush money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 15, 1926 | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

Bluffing on the part of the Angora Government began by calling four more classes to the Turkish colors, the massing of four divisions of cavalry at Jezire-ibn-Omar, 20 miles behind the Mosul frontier, and mild efforts to prepare the Dardanelles against a possible naval threat from Britain. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mosul | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

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