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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rebuttal came neither from Lady Nancy Astor M. P. (Conservative) nor from Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield M. P. (Laborite), but from Britain's biggest businesswoman, Viscountess Rhondda. the "Coal Queen of Wales," Directress of Cambrian Colleries Ltd.; a peeress in her own right and therefore ineligible to sit in either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

*The New York Times has its own forest and papermills at Kapuskasmy, Ontario.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Premier v. Pulpster | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

"I warn you all not to believe sensational books or biased newspaper articles,'' said the Chief Justice severely. "A great many of the people I met, both in public and in private, possessed rare culture and charm. I was impressed by the refinement of American home life. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Chief Justice on Lampoon | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Plucked to the Skin. Obeying orders from Moscow, the long grey Soviet armored trains which plunged their fangs into Manchuria last fortnight withdrew to their own frontiers last week. But in the areas they had raked and ravaged Chinese fright and confusion grew from panic to anarchy. Soldiers deserted their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: ''Not One Square Inch! | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Japan the Peacemaker. Almost irrelevant to the real Chinese situation last week were screeching headlines about appeals to President Hoover and the League of Nations by Nationalist Foreign Minister C. T. Wang (Yale, 1911). In his own capital Mr. Wang was credited with having utterly bungled the Chino-Russian imbroglio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: ''Not One Square Inch! | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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