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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridgeman revealed that Oath Swearer Collard would be compulsorily retired as "unfit for high command,"* whereas the two officers convicted of technical misconduct in complaining against him will receive fresh commands at sea, "as soon as vacancies appear." A fresh sensation stirred when one of the officers slated for reinstatement, Commander H. M. Daniel, abruptly resigned from the Royal Navy, last week, and joined the staff of the newspaper which has been loudest in his defense, the Daily Mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Under pretext of conducting a group of U. S. clergymen through the University, last week, strapping Missionary Zwemer began to distribute Presbyterian tracts. Soon some hundreds of the students became excited by this apparently inflammatory literature. One unshakably Moslem student sought to tear the last of the tracts from Dr. Zwemer's potent fist, but other students barkened for a time to his loud, impressive words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Missionary | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Naturally the climax of Correspondent James' dash to Rome came when he was ushered into the enormous, high ceilinged office of Signor Mussolini in the Palazzo Chigi. Soon Il Duce consented to discuss a subject at which most men shy, the prospect of his own death. Said he: "I am here today and gone tomorrow; but let no one think Fascism goes with me. . . . I do not know how long Mussolini will last, but Fascism shall last longer. ... I will leave to Italy the institution of Fascism established on solid grounds-an historic institution. . . . The youth of Italy shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Prospect of Death | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Five hours and 20 minutes after the start, the Stutz coasted into the repair pits, where mechanics swarmed over it like ants on a picnic cake. The foreign car kept droning on its way. Soon the Stutz mechanics shook their heads; their pet had broken a connecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stutz v. Hispano-Suiza | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blessed Event | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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