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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statesman Stimson was patently annoyed that Governor Moody had allowed Texas to drift into such an international tangle. Already bothered by a bad head cold, he sent the Texas executive a message, promising "to see what, if anything, may be wisely done" and observing further: "The Mexican reason [for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Closed Portal | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The Major added that his charge is not expected to resume his post at the Foreign Office for "several months." Rumors are current in London that H. R. H. combats insomnia with white powders, one school of rumor holding that they are ordinary sleeping powders.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insomniac | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Such, fairly and frankly set forth by an honest, candid man, is the train of thought by which 99 Britons out of 100 have arrived at the belief that it is right for them to have a larger navy than the U. S., which has so many less merchant ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

¶ Bristled to attention as the shooting of 18 women by British police and troops in Nigeria, West Africa, was announced by Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies Dr. T. Drummond Shiels. The women, said Dr. Shiels, were Negresses. They had attacked some British officers. Troops rushing to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The Nigerian blacks have been in an ugly, riotous mood of late, due to the Government's unpopular attempts to collect a head tax on their woolly polls. At Itu, Nigeria, the local British river steamer was chased by tax-indignant blacks in war canoes. "With regard to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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