Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally the official attitude of the Soviet State toward Afghanistan was discreetly set forth by Foreign Minister Georges Tchitcherin in a long editorial which he contributed to Izvestia. Naturally Comrade Tchitcherin omitted to mention the matter of subsidies (bribes) which have been paid to King Amanullah at various times by both Great Britain and Russia. Nor did the Foreign Minister allude to arrangements with His Majesty which have occasionally furthered the infiltration of Soviet agitators through Afghanistan into India. Such matters are not for the press. But Comrade Tchitcherin did stress in able and complimentary fashion the vital importance...
Young Mr. Cowles and his father, Gardner Cowles, have a monopoly of the newspaper business in Des Moines. Their papers, Register (morning and Sunday) and Tribune-Capital (evening), too big for Des Moines, circulate through all Iowa. They are read by more inhabitants of the state where the tall corn grows than any other publications, except possibly the Bible and the Sears, Roebuck catalog...
...Berlin, Erich Kleiber, chief conductor of the State Opera, refused to take a five-year contract with the Metropolitan Opera of Manhattan. He took the advice of the Prussian Minister of Fine Arts, anticipated another successful season in Berlin...
...Indianapolis Times, a gold medal "for its work in exposing the political corruption in Indiana, prosecuting the guilty, and bringing about a more wholesome state of affairs in civil government...
Final plans for the mock Democratic Convention tomorrow night will be made by the executive committee of the Democratic Club this afternoon. This evening at the Union, the 48 State chairmen who will be in charge of the delegations will meet to receive their final instructions and to complete the arrangements for the convention...