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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five-Year-Old. On the fifth birthday of the Turkish Republic, last week, every State and Municipal official was examined to see whether he knew his ABC's. Scared and trembling like so many toddling five-year-olds, more than 1,000 potent functionaries submitted willy nilly to the test. Those who flunked out would be demoted or dismissed. Such were the orders of the President of Turkey, stern and ruthless Mustafa Kemal Pasha, called Ghazi, ''The Victorious." Progressive to the point of rashness, President Kemal resolved and ordered (TIME, Sept. 17) that every Turkish official must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Potent Birthdays | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

German citizens who expected to see the mace of Government fall upon the truculent employers like the vengeful hammer of Thor were surprised and perturbed to see that nothing of the sort happened last week. Many a legal expert opined that the State is not empowered to enforce such awards, and gratuitously added that the Ministry of Labor has put through many such in the past chiefly by might of bluff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Might of Bluff | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

When Japanese thought that they sensed in the air, last week, a prodigious, ghostly bustling, they knew quite well and rationally what they thought was happening, although they could neither feel, hear, see, taste or smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Unseen, Unheard, Unsmelt | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Reasons. Politics is the art of speaking convincingly on selected topics. The reasons they advanced why Hoover should be elected were the reasons Republicans stressed, in public, to explain why he was elected. Democrats to the contrary notwithstanding (see p. 24), the Republican explanations were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Thirty-First | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Prohibition-Here a split. Wet Republicans insisted that they hoped to see "the experiment noble in motive" worked out "constructively" by Hoover and that "constructively" would mean "liberally," i.e., modification. Dry Republicans approved the words of Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League of America, whose election proclamation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Thirty-First | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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