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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paris. Throughout the week the French Government appeared to grow steadily more apprehensive lest the U. S. and Britain were drawing too closely into disarmament cahoots. Fear that Italy and France may be brusquely dictated to by Britain and the U. S. at the Five Power Naval Conference was increasingly manifest in the Paris press. Said the Journal des Debats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace & Disarmament | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...statesmen who have turned tycoons the U. S. has few. Of statesmen or tycoons of the kind which stepped on U. S. shores last week, the U. S. has none whatever. For he is a man who (one may presume) would not deny except in modesty that his brilliant conversation has charmed many beautiful women, that wine accelerates the human faculties, perhaps even that a game of chance may produce a fine exhilaration. He is representative of the British notion that the highroad to success, even in politics 'or business, is not paved entirely with the virtues that the parson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Statesman in Industry | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Specifically I may say that the chiefs of the Canadian railways have agreed to place orders for British coal in larger amounts than they have in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jokester Jim | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...spent last Monday going around the London Parks looking for suitable places where children may get all the sun they want. ... I hope to arrange for sun bathing by the time next summer comes round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sun Baths | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...than Socialist Vienna. Heimwehr troops with pistol and bludgeon would then keep the Socialist Deputies from, attending. In their absence the desired amendment would easily pass. By way of pretense that this solution would be legal, the Reichspost quoted Article XXV of the Austrian Constitution: "Under exceptional conditions, Parliament may sit in any other part of Austria away from Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Rifles at the Ready! | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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