Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seeing the University of London's plight, the Government lately offered it an option on eleven acres of good Bloomsbury soil adjacent to its University College hospital site, right behind the British Museum, hard by a number of learned headquarters such as the Royal...
Four august gentlemen have been inspecting the British coal industry with statistical microscopes since last August. Chairmaned by the noted industrialist, Sir Herbert Samuel, they constitute the Royal Coal Commission. Last week they released a report of staggering dimensions touching upon every phase of the coal industry, which Premier Baldwin was obliged to subsidize for nine months, beginning Aug. 1, 1925, in order to avert a general strike (TIME, Aug. 10). The four gentlemen recommended that...
When the numerous princes, dukes, and counts fied the empire at the time of the revolution, there was no rancor between them and the people. It is only natural, therefore, that the sentiments of a large part of the nation today oppose the confiscation of this royal property and favor its restoration...
...Germany of today is a poverty stricken nation trying to pay off the biggest indemnity of history. The former royal property includes besides castles land, and works of art, a long list of incomes, pensions, stocks and bonds, indemnities,--all worth about two billion gold marks. Do the already overtaxed people wish to pay back from the government treasury an amount three times as great as the Dawes loan? If in their present needy condition they are willing to do this, they show a loyalty to rank and property strangely incongruous in a socialist republic. Capitalists who dread Socialism will...
...clock in the New Lecture Hall. Dr. Lauro de Bosis, who has already given a number of lectures at the University, will speak at this meeting and illustrate his remarks with moving pictures. Dr. de Bosis, a member of the faculty of the University of Rome and Royal Commissioner of the Modern Italian Art Exhibit at present being shown in America, has been closely associated with artistic activities in Italy, and his lecture tonight will deal largely with recent excavations of ancient Roman ruins, and with the revival of old forms of art, a work which has been progressing rapidly...