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...President's life were held in custody last week, may suffer a similar fate. The nature of their conspiracy is still concealed. Allegedly, there were several plans: 1) To hand the President a bouquet containing a bomb. 2) To attack his motor in some lonely place. 3) To poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Thirteen | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain of the military seizure demanded by Armed Poland. When finally tracked down by reporters, the Marshal was discovered in superintendence of secret maneuvres by the poison gas corps of the Polish Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Pilsudski into Faust? | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...highly nervous woman, who is bored with her dull husband, is the central figure. She has a lover who deserts. From him she turns to a Negro lawyer. Finally she takes poison. The play was frank, at times lewd, but never sensationally so. It was not the dirt of which the audience disapproved; it was the dullness. Mary Blair, able heroine of many of Eugene O'Neill's best plays, had the lead. Her performance was unaccountably inept. She fled the cast after the opening performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...Ample time and patience must be allowed for the consideration of "general abstract principles" of disarmament. (A concession to the Latin nations' view that "disarmament" must "logically" take into account the "potential armaments" possessed by the nations: e.g., dye factories instantly convertible into poison gas plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: At Geneva | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...very word "disarmament" has no meaning for purposes of international negotiation until defined. Does it mean, as "French logic" demands, that in order to "disarm" a nation you must do something about "peaceful dye factories" capable of being converted to produce poison gas in a few hours? Does it mean, as "British common sense" insists, that "practically" it is not possible to "disarm" a nation further than by scrapping its submarines, airplanes, guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Disarmament | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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