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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cross. The Red Cross has been trying for years to get him to adhere to its Geneva Convention-i. e. to pledge that Ethiopians will not fight with unrestrained barbarity or fire on Red Cross units succoring the enemy. Last week the Emperor again indicated that neither his Govern-ment nor any authority whatsoever can hope to prevent Ethiopians from castrating wounded or captured Italians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ethiopia's Week | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...plight is due largely to govern-ment intoxication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Government Intoxication | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...about his Crown. But victorious Premier Tsaldaris was by no means ready to kiss the royal hand. He sent to the polls candidates for something he called the Government Party, while loyal old General John Metaxas put up Royalist Party candidates. Only nine Royalists were elected, while the Govern-ment Party won 285 seats out of 300 in the new Greek Assembly. Did that mean that George II had no chance to get back his Throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Royal Plebiscite | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...expenses. The bondholders will have to take at least a temporary cut in their coupon rate, and the preferred stockholders, who have had no return for four years, will probably be asked to accept a less preferred position in the capital structure. Knottiest question will be the treat-ment of the common stock, all owned by I. T. & T. The Brothers Behn not only issued more than 300,000 shares of I. T. & T. stock to Clarence Mackay & friends in payment for Postal, but I. T. & T. also subsequently increased its equity by $25,000,000 cash, which was used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Postal Down | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

Caught again last week in the crossfire of America's war on the Mexican Govern.-ment was God-fearing U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels. He, too, had been talking over the radio, not reciting racy verses but extending welcome to the U. S. Rotarians who are to go to Mexico City for their international convention next month. For his praise of Mexican flowers, landmarks and climate, Ambassador Daniels was roundly rapped by America which declared that, had Ambassador William E. Dodd done the same for Germany, "he would be greeted with a storm of angry remonstrance from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jesuit v. Eulogy | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

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