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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matsuyama came by his skill psychologically. He learned the game in Japan, where its finicky precision is enormously popular among a precise people. In Tokyo, before the last earthquake, there were 321 billiard halls full of grave little yellow men studying the motions of two white balls and a red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red, White & Green | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...with the Great Powers a pact of total disarmament (TIME, Dec. 12, 1927), he was called a hypocrite. When he appeared again, this time with a pact of partial disarmament (TIME, April 2), the Acting Foreign-Minister of Soviet Russia was once more called a hypocrite. Nobody believed that Red Russia would keep a pledge to disarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Litvinov's Protocol | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Fortunately there are other staircases in the Latjeran. Cardinal Gasparri, Signor Mussolini and their suites entered not all kneeling, but militantly erect. They met and faced each other across a massive table, 16 feet long and 4 feet wide, the top hewn from a single log of deep red narra wood from the Philippines. Present at the signing were no guests, no newspapermen, no servants, and only two photographers who scuttled out as soon as they had snapped the awesome scene. The door was then locked and Papal Attorney Pacelli read solemnly the text of the Italo-Papal agreement which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: The Day of God | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Last week plenipotentiaries from the bedeviled Countries journeyed to Moscow, purposing to sign the Litvinov protocol, and to consummate a crowning piece of Red hypocrisy (i. e., pacifism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Litvinov's Protocol | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Once there were only a few men fools enough to suffer. Then came this Athletics-for-All Policy. Where one man hobbled over the Bridge with his limbs red with Mercurochrome, now there are ten. Where one man went mad learning signals, there are dozens...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

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