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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reichstag. 2) If the Reichstag refuses to pass the law, it may still be made effective by holding a second referendum in which the ballots of 50% of the electorate (20,000,000) are necessary for ratification. "Liberty Law." Because the Treaty of Versailles postulates Germany's sole War guilt and then lays upon her the burden of Reparations, some hot-headed Germans hug the fallacy that if the Fatherland would only repudiate her guilt she could then impress the Allies with the logic of refusing to pay Reparations for a crime which Germany did not commit. Such hotheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Sense v. Nonsense | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...last week, he reigned as Chief Surgeon of a group of Soviet hospitals at Kiev. Nurses sometimes fainted at the gory gusto of his "carving." But always Comrade Dr. Nelski sewed up his gaping incisions with admirable neatness - as neatly as a cobbler stitching uppers to a sole. Last week a stern Kiev judge sentenced "The Slasher" to six years in jail. He had confessed that his real name is Ivan Kolesnikov, his true profession shoemaking. Eight years ago, amid the chaos of post-Revolution Russia, he stole the diploma and paraphernalia of a certain assassinated Dr. Nelski, palmed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Notes | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...father, the Rev. Ole John Kvale, whose charred body was last month found in his burned summer cottage (TIME, Sept. 23). Like his father whom he, the eldest of six sons, served as secretary in Washington, Son Kvale was chosen as a Farmer-Laborite and will be the sole representative of that party in the House.* The new Congressman is an engaging young man, thoroughly Nordic in appearance, thoroughly accommodating in manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fathers & Sons | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Henrik Shipstead, duck-hunting Minnesota dentist, is the sole Farmer-Laborite in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Fathers & Sons | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...credits, shall merely transfer, distribute and mobilize existing credits. It will be a clearing house for Reparations, not an international bank of issue, not a competitor with the great central banks as some have feared. Consequently the B. I. S. will have only a small gold reserve, since the sole worth of a large reserve is to back notes or credits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baden-Baden Bankers | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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