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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abdicated as Kaiser and King in November 1918. The sixth birthday of the Fascist Régime in Italy has just been celebrated (TIME,, Nov. 5). Czechoslovakia was ten years old last week, and the Turkish Republic was five. Today there are eleven red candles on the cake of Soviet Russia. Therefore last week birthdays loomed as potent news...

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

Foreign Minister Wang represented China at the Paris Peace Conference, has been sent as Special Envoy to the U. S. and Soviet Russia, is a Yale B. A. 1911, and continues Managing Director of the great Liuhokou Coal Mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chiang's Cabinet | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...first sample of Russian humor ever presented in the U. S. in cinema. The three comrades, one big, one little male and one, Olga Tretlakova, lusty and white-toothed female with no waistline, used an invention for making boxes as the mechanism for laughing at inventions, manufacturers, the Soviet government, country life. And U. S. audiences laughed at humor in the style of Gogol as heartily as in the past they have laughed at humor in the style of Sennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Russia. The Amtorg Trading Corp. of New York, sole U. S. purchasing agent for the Soviet Government and the International General Electric Co. of New York have concluded a deal whereby $25,000,000 worth of U.S. electric apparatus may be sent to Russia within the next five years. Thus was pointedly marked a commercial rapport between the two countries. The Russian press was jubilant over the deal; Economic Life of Moscow talked about a breach in the ''credit blockade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Nationalists as Generalissimo Chiang's armies approached. Largely by such means and with very little fighting the Southern half of China was absorbed by Nationalism in barely two months! (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Not long after this staggering initial success, shrewd Chiang Kai-shek broke absolutely with the Soviet backers of the Nationalist Revolution, and today no man is oftener reviled and burned in effigy at Moscow than he ? except perhaps Great Britain's gaunt, bemonocled Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First President | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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