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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the week, President Coolidge, Premier Mussolini, Marshal Foch, General Pershing, Edward of Wales, Thomas A. Edison, Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany, Admiral Lord Beatty of Britain, and many another, appeared in the East Room of the White House and made speeches?in a special Movietone performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

When the Commons debate began all party whips were taken off. Thus each member spoke and voted from personal conviction. To further emphasize the ruling out of politics, two members of Premier Stanley Baldwin's cabinet spoke for approval of the Prayer Book and two against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Popery! | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...motion for approval was put by First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman, a Cabinet member, speaking, he said, simply in behalf of "the man in the pew." Premier Baldwin himself supported Mr. Bridgeman, pointing out that the proposed revision was a compromise between high and low church opinion. He warned that to deny the church her carefully chosen ground of compromise would be to weaken her authority to a point at which proposals to disestablish the Church might again be made. "How many members of this House," he concluded, 'believe that the Church would survive disestablishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Popery! | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...that settlement of this question should not be postponed, last week, there had come to Geneva the Premier of Hungary Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen. He, though potent at home, was no match, at Geneva, for M. Braind who shortly persuaded the Council to delay even consideration of this issue until the next Council meeting in March. Chagrined Hungarians remembered that it was M. Briand who, last March, got the Council to postpone this same matter until the present December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Briand's Miracle | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...France laughed au nez ("hee-hawed") when fiery M. Leon Daudet, editor of the hysterically Royalist newspaper L'Action Francaise was recently released from prison (TIME, July 4) by a faked telephone order supposed to have come from a member of the august "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincaré. Since that merry escapade every policeman in France has received the order "Arrest M. Leon Daudet on sight"-but Daudet has managed to conceal his whereabouts. Therefore a sensation burst last week, at Paris, when it was announced that Editor Daudet would positively address a Royalist audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Again, Daudet | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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