Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning before and ending after the trial of Colonel Mitchell, the Court of Inquiry into the causes of the Shenandoah disaster closed last week. Its report must yet be made and approved by the Secretary of the Navy. The three months of the inquiry were not all spent in hearings, since there were lengthy recesses...
MOSUL. The vexed question of whether the Republic of Turkey or the British-protected Kingdom of Irak shall hold sway over the oil fields and Christians in the Vilayet of Mosul (TIME, Dec. 31 et ante) was illuminated early in the week by the report of the Esthonian General Laidoner, sent by the League to investigate British charges against the Turks (TIME...
...Turkish Position. Foreign Minister Tewfic Bey sent an official protest to the Council, alleging that England had armed the Chaldeans against the Turks and that no Turkish atrocities had been committed. Unofficially the Turks at Geneva inquired, "How much did Laidoner get paid for his report?" Previously the Turkish representative before the Council, Munir Bey, had delivered an interminable harangue in which he raked up endless legal quibbles. He alleged that the Council had no right to dispose of Mosul, under the Treaty of Lausanne, except by a unanimous decision in which Turkey's vote must be counted...
...Council accepted the report of its Committee of Investigation (TIME, Dec. 14) laying upon Greece the responsibility for the recent Greco-Bulgar clash (TIME, Nov. 2, GREECE). Athens was instructed to pay an indemnity of 30 million leva ($219,000) to Sophia. MM. Rendis and Kaldoff accepted this adjudication of the matter, respectively on behalf of the Greek and Bulgarian Governments...
...churchmen to close all theatres, playgrounds, amusement parks on Sundays, and limit the amusement of the public to churchgoing, which these churchmen consider amusement enough. Last week the "Lord's Day alliance," as these churchmen call their association, held its annual meeting in Manhattan, appointed a committee to report judges and county officials who belittle Sunday laws, commended Postmaster General Harry S. New for closing all post offices on Christmas Day. And among the men of known worth who would have liked to attend that meeting was Dr. W. T. Grenfell, famed "Angel of Labrador," explorer, missioner. He wrote...