Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most gratifying to sound, representative Germans was the appointment, last week, of General Wilhelm Groener to be Minister of Defense, succeeding famed Dr. Otto Gessler, who held that post for seven years prior to his recent retirement (TIME...
Healthy was the complete calm amid which the French Chamber opened, last week, for its last sessions prior to the general elections in April. The Government of Premier Poincaré won easily a vote of confidence of 310 to 227 on an issue of party politics which had been deemed dynamite-laden, and serene progress loomed in the Chamber while frenzied electioneering began outside...
...From back pages of the daily journals, from "Whiz Bang", from the over-fertilized imaginations of the presumably witty, come combinations of words rarely before encountered. "Men Without Women", "Judd, Ruth and the Sashweight", "Browning and Three Peaches", just growed for the occasion. They could not have had a prior raison d'etre and we trust will sink into that impenetrable oblivion which we feel sure awaits them...
Friends of the Signora Rachele Mussolini were glad to believe, last week, a pleasant story illustrative of her undoubted goodness of heart. It is told that, prior to the birth of the bambino Romano Mussolini (TIME, Oct. 10), she learned how intolerable was the lot of some 600 antiFascists then exiled upon blistering, volcanic islands off the coast of Sicily. Acutely sensible of the sufferings of others, she was moved to intercede with the Signor Benito Mussolini. Soon it became known that some at least of the 600 exiles would be released. Last week a round, generous 300 were allowed...
...Adopted a legal rider submitted by Señor Calles which amends the land and oil laws so that they are no longer "retroactively confiscatory." Specifically, land and oil rights obtained by U. S. citizens in Mexico prior to May 1, 1917, are to be "confirmed without limitation of time," whereas 50 years had been the limit after which such rights would revert to the State...