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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There has been a revoluion in Lithuanta, according to the latest reports, which are very brief and say only that General Smetons, supported by the Army, has taken over the Government, and thrown its former members into jail. Yet this item has a prominent place on the front page of the papers, taking the space temporarily deserted by the intrigues of the Roumanian Government and the illness of their King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANIAS AND ARIAS | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

Costs. The budget has been thrown out of balance and the Government's expenses for the year were last week $421,345,000 in excess of revenue.* As an example, the cost of poor relief mounted $29,000,000 beyond expectations. The miners themselves lost $325,000,000 in wages; and are now forced to accept $12 a week and less per man. The loss on curtailed coal production was $480,000,000. Of losses to allied industries the leading railroads suffered $125,000,000, shipping $50,000,000 more; and the steel industry was so hard hit that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Debit | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...Imperial Russian cruiser, Prince Potemkin, in the year 1905. It dallies with no hero, no heroine, no plot complication. The drama is of the crew, the human beings who scrub, polish, mother the steel monster and are fed, in return, with wormy meat. They protest. A sail cloth is thrown over 50 sailors, marines are ordered to shoot them down. With one accord, all the men rebel, fling the officers overboard, commandeer the ship, receive food and sympathy from the harbor town of Odessa, steam past the rest of the fleet (whose crews refuse to fire on their comrades), find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...already been pointed out that the University Theatre, if it has not become a tradition, has at least become a habit. The Harvard character, whatever that may be, has always revealed itself in many aspects, but perhaps it has never thrown itself open to analysis as frankly as it has at this new entire of entertainment. Some people, particularly the college officials, feared that the new theatre in our midst would lead to indolence and waste of time; others, especially the managers of the theatre, saw hopes of giving the Harvard boys some clean and healthy entertainment to take their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PEACEFUL INFLUENCE | 12/17/1926 | See Source »

...Committee also urges that great care be exercised in the choice of candidates and in following the directions on the ballot. Last year a great many ballots had to be thrown out, which altered the final result. Ballots, to be valid, must be signed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND GROUP OF 1927 OFFICERS TO BE ELECTED TODAY | 12/15/1926 | See Source »

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