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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The King," said the bulletin, "is now able to read and apply his mind for short periods of time. Complete recovery is still some months distant."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royalty | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Recovering his startled wits, the Mayor of Trencsen drafted with much thought a letter to Bangkok. About a year ago, he explained, some Slovaks held a mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Botanist into President | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

The fifty-fourth session of the Council of the League of Nations opened in Geneva, last week, with sardonic Vittorio Scialoja in the chair. This brilliant, skeptical Italian jurist comes of a line of Scialojas who have been magistrates and grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Billions in the Balance | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

A white-haired, bespectacled old lady with a big black umbrella and a little black bonnet tied under chin last week honored some great men of her country and proved to the world that the Dutch are a hardy race.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Emma's Junket | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Stationed in the trig military centre of Andover, Hampshire, are some of His Majesty's most gallant officers and whole regiments of British Tommies who have a cocky, engaging eye for women. Last week these connoisseurs were utterly flabbergasted when they learned that Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Transvestite | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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