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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commission. The Tariff Commission was changed back into a bi-partisan organization responsible to Congress, contrary to President Hoover's wishes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Show Is Over | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

¶ "It is a hard, thankless job. . . . There are some who will count me just another 'out' in the game; others will say 'she made a sacrifice hit.' ... As President Roosevelt said: 'Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Nations v. Willebrandt | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Conference? In his public remarks last week Privy Seal Jim only hinted in broadest terms at the subject of his several private conferences with Prime Minister King and numerous Canadian tycoons, including august Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways. "I do not propose to tell the Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Privy Seal Jim | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Amazed students of modern history had only a few hours in which to wonder whether Dr. Edouard Benes?co-founder of the Czechoslovak Republic with famed President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk? could possibly have tinkered together in secret the new three-in-one "Great Power." For the day after its revelation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITTLE ENTENTE: Great Power? | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Slim, wasp-waisted, high-strung President Chiang Kai-shek of China seemed to crack suddenly under the strain of the Sino-Russian crisis one day last week. At a meeting of the Cabinet at Nanking he wrung his small bony hands and wailed out despairingly one of the most remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: Blucher v. Chiang | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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