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When the Gargantuan tumult subsided, 26 parties had gained seats for one or more of their adherents. Observers remarked that little Latvia may well claim to have more identifiable factions than any other republic. The new Parliament, when it assembles, will be called upon to elect the Latvian President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATVIA: Election | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

Communists raised a tumult, called the Chancellor a "tax robber" amid wild cheers, boos, growls. Under threat of police intervention they cooled. Quiet was restored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tax Talk | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...there were. Not far off, the heavy swells, uprearing to heaven, toppled forward in streaming white tumult and stretched away into a flat boil, as smaller waves will over a jutting reef or sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atlantis? | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...GORILLA?An obvious tumult in which mystery plays are all rolled together and burlesqued shamelessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 18, 1925 | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...that the tumult and shouting has died down, and the suppression of the Advocate and the Lampoon has become a recognized fact, it might be well to look at the situation from the attitude that the college authorities took in this affair. Many agree that the action of the police was mischievous and unwarranted in both cases, but whereas the Lampoon was a clean and clever satire, the Advocate was scarcely so commendable a publication to outsiders. This, if ever, would have been the occasion for the interference of University authorities. But the dean's office, holding to its traditional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SILENT CONFIDENCE | 5/1/1925 | See Source »

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