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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomatic pressure from the Great Powers mobilized by U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, last week virtually imposed peace between Nationalist China and Soviet Russia. Dictator-Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria, commander of China's first line of defense, even found leisure to pose and talk pidgin English for U. S. Movietone minions...
...lecture as if he were in a classroom. Most of the teachers attending the exhibit, which will remain open during August, were in Geneva for the Congress of the World Federation of Education Associations, begun six years ago in the U. S. by Dr. Augustus Orloff Thomas. State Superintendent of Public Schools in Maine and President of the Congress. While the aim of the Federation is to discuss the significant movements in education, this year it is being devoted especially to the promotion of peace through education. Prof. Gilbert Murray of Oxford. President of the League of Nations Committee...
...demands on his time. In his large Book-Cadillac studio-suite, Painter Chandor stayed at Detroit, painting the prosperous, until last spring when TIME gave him his Hoover Cabinet commission, when he moved to Washington. This project is now half-finished, with the President, Vice President, the Secretaries of State and the Navy, the Attorney-General and Postmaster-General...
...Ruth, sacrificing their reputations and her job, went to keep house for him, to take up the work of making a doctor out of him. She succeeded with her ?1,000 legacy and her advice, which he followed, that he substitute paying patients for charity ones. Society, the married state and the world outside Roper's Row claimed Chris Hazzard. Thus ends the saga of a man reared by his mother, raised by his wife. Author Deeping, whose Roper's Row bears some slight hero-resemblance to Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, writes with experience...
...recorded the number of fatal industrial accidents in New York State in June. It was a large statistic of its kind. Many a fatality had occurred in construction work. Among causes of deaths were: Motor vehicles, 24; trains, 13; elevators and hoists, 5; cranes and conveyors, 5: falling objects, 2; steam shovels, 2; falls. 25; handling of objects, 18; explosions, hot substances and electricity...