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When the survey is complete Mr. Ford plans to pay all his workmen throughout the world an "equivalent wage," equivalent not in gold but in what the wage will buy in the place where the worker works. Already there is anxious talk among statesmen that if Mr. Ford's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Standardized Living | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Hard-squeezed British taxpayers who already contribute over $65,000,000 a yea to the unemployment dole winced as ' screw threatened to turn again last week. A special committee of the potent Trade Union Congress, meeting in London, blandly manifested to the Labor Government that the dole must be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baby Dole | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

Through the crowd to Blenheim's bridle elbowed a stout, swarthy man in morning clothes, top hat and thick glasses-the Aga Khan III, spiritual head of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans. Unperturbed by his religious responsibilities, he lives in France with his young French wife, daughter of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horses | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

Arthur William Bell, Bailiff of Guernsey, cogitated on the bench. "There seems to be no doubt," said Bailiff Bell, "that there has been a direct contravention of the Clameur de Haro. There was risk of a serious breach of the peace by virtue of the accused's behavior. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ha, Rollol | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Last week the splendid shilling arrived in Bucharest, was duly deposited in the royal trousers. To London went a royal message:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Splendid Shilling | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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