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Word: states (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...court three months before its birth the name of the father. If he does not protest it is taken for granted that he is the father and he is held, equally with the mother, responsible for the child's support. . . . The original Communist theory that the State should be responsible for children has been abandoned. It is still held [only] by such champions of free love as Alexandra Kollontai . . . now [Soviet] Minister to Norway (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietdom Penetrated | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Both observers deem the Soviet State scrupulous in fulfilling the letter of its agreements, and yet inclined to adopt what Miss Thompson calls "a rather Machiavellian attitude," when it proves possible to mulct or ruin a foreign capitalist while still keeping within the limits of his concession agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietdom Penetrated | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Espionage. The dread Ogpu (sometimes abbreviated Gpu) or secret police is given its unfamiliar official designation by Mr. Lee as, "The Union State Political Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietdom Penetrated | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

First, the Council will attempt to discover and to state the spiritual values of non-Christian systems of religion; it will review Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islamism from a sympathetic point of view. Then it will try to reach a more profound understanding of interdependence between the younger Churches, especially in Asia, and the older Churches. Another topic to be considered is the impact of industrialism upon Asia and Africa. These are questions which have often been discussed before, though perhaps never by a group so well equipped to arrive at satisfactory answers. This is a council of commanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Going to Jerusalem | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Last week, only one member was carried from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in a state of complete collapse. A petition circulated among members for a three day holiday, Good Friday, the intervening Saturday and Easter Monday, appeared to find more brokers fascinated by the profits of 4,000,000 share sessions than worried by the danger of physical ruin. Every "record" of any shape or description was broken and rebroken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Public Invited | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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