Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the most striking tribute Edward of Wales was ever paid-or is ever likely to be paid-was voiced last week by notorious "Emperor" A. J. Cook, the ruthless apostle of "class war" who provoked the disastrous British General Strike (TIME, May 10-24, 1926). Nine Tories out of ten would not disbelieve anyone who told them that Mr. Cook has actively plotted to topple down the British Throne. He has publicly "thanked God for Moscow!" because from that city he received thousands of gold rubles to promote the General Strike. Just now the fortunes of "Emperor" Cook...
Some years ago the Union of South Africa forbade laying on of the kiboko by private individuals; but this law, like U. S. Prohibition statutes, has suffered practical modification. Just as home brew may be brewed in comparative security throughout the U. S., so a white South Africander may kiboko his refractory blacks providing the kibokee is first stretched on the ground and covered with a blanket to protect him from embarrassing welts and cuts with which he might run to the District Commissioner...
...decreed that for every three gowns that a Parisienne sells in the U. S., she must buy one U. S. gown and try to sell it in France. The uproar, the heaven-piercing cries for justice which would rise from Paris if the U. S. took such a stand may be imagined. None the less the French Government was last week on the point of imposing precisely similar conditions with respect to U. S. films shown in France...
Almost every Paris newspaper except those owned by Perfumer-Publisher Coty has been urging for months that a one-for-three quota be imposed, instead of the present one-for-seven arrangement which U. S. Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays secured on his famed visit to Paris (TIME, May 14), but which expires next September...
Nearly everyone in the U. S. wants to believe, does believe, that Germany is prosperous and can pay the sums demanded of her in Reparations (see Inter-national). The majority may be right again, but last week some very pessimistic information about the Reich was vouchsafed by an expert known to have the ear and confidence of U. S. President Herbert Hoover. Indeed this expert, Dr. Julius Klein, was responsible for building up under Secretary of Commerce Hoover one of the most favorably-known trade in formation bureaus possessed by any state. He has just returned from a series...