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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before quitting London the Secretary of State for India delivered a wholly characteristic after dinner address to the famed Authors' Club on the subject: "Women's Position in Literature." Said scathing Lord Birkenhead: ". . . Women have no position in literature...
...leftward swing by the voters to pre-ponderately support this group of groups would very probably result in the eventual replacement of Prime Minister Poincaré by some outstanding member of the Cartel des Gauches and would lead to less orthodox handling of State finance. As may be seen from the above summary, it is a curious fact that the leaders of both the large rival groupings are now members of the present Sacred Union Cabinet which was assembled during the franc crisis from leaders of all parties. Thus no matter which way the election swings, a considerable proportion...
...always upon the best of terms, the Prime Minister's office carefully informed the press that when news of the explosion reached Signor Mussolini "he bounded from his chair with a mixture of sadness and indignation upon his face." Later the Prime Minister & Head of the State telegraphed His Majesty as follows...
First thunders against the Ronoto came, last week, in an announcement from the Ministry of Justice. This states that the Imperial Police had arrested in a secret raid 1,013 Opposition sympathizers of whom 26 were being held as Communists, on charges of attempting to subvert the state and throne. Followed at once, from the Ministry of Home Affairs, an order for the dissolution of the Ronoto, on the ground that it had become a Communist organization. In Japan, as everyone knows, the practice or preaching of Communism has been illegal since 1923. Suppressed along with the Ronoto, last week...
...Irishman climbed into the seat beside Pilot Koehl and the controls. Commandant James Fitzmaurice it was, and, as befitted an adventurous Irish lad of 30 with a flair for the romantic and a record for the daring, he was head of the Air Force of the Irish Free State. He too wanted to fly across the Atlantic; had, indeed, made a start last September with Capt. Robert H. Mclntosh in the Fokker monoplane Princess Xenia, only to turn back after three hours' weary bicker with the winds...