Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hero-worshipping men-children of Giggleswick School, Yorkshire, were addressed last fortnight by Lord Byng of Vimy, 65, the grizzled War hero who is about to become Police Commissioner at London's famed Scotland Yard. Even at Giggleswick little boys know that Scotland Yard has been rocked by scandalous exposures (TIME, July 16) and that the weighty War prestige of Lord Byng is counted on to steady matters down. Especially do naughty little Giggleswickers know about Miss Irene Savidge, who was made to show her pink petticoat in the course of a Scotland Yard Third Degree which caused...
...today that, last week, Socialist Prime Minister Herman Müller announced, for the first time, suspension of the annual army maneuvers scheduled to take place next fall. Simultaneously a letter sped from Wilhelm II to the Kaiser Wilhelm Association at Berlin, stating that the onetime All Highest War Lord still envisions "a day when the problem may arise of liberating the German Fatherland by reestablishing it under its Kaiser and hereditary Prince...
...understand them." 6) "Vigilant economy and inflexible refusal to authorize any economic enterprise not considered vital." Clearly the stringency of this Six Point Cycle means that // Duce will not stop short of so-called "Wartime measures" to ensure the fiscal recovery of Italy and prompt payment of her war debts. Ceaseless and ever potent must be Finance Minister Mosconi's fecund activity. Inspiring to him, last week, was the fact that Italy's germinal grain fields are now sprouting and flourishing with an activity announced to promise bumper crops. So impetuously potent is the grain, this summer, that...
...handling and filing" divorce papers; but he was gravely accused of accepting as much as 20 or even 25 francs (80? or $1) as an illegal fee or bribe for "expediting" the papers. Piteously M. Le Registrar Chipot plead that when the franc declined to one fourth its pre-War value, "it became customary for us poor registrars to accept whatever fees were offered." The 119 judges, touched by this appeal, suspended Registrar Chipot for two months only, then adjusted his suspension to fall exactly within the two months annual vacation of the Court, at which time the Registrar...
...diplomat, knowing that the French would not feel satisfied unless Tilden was in action, promptly said the necessary words to the U. S. tennis officials. A final decision on Tilden's status will be made when he returns to the U. S. Meanwhile, Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War and donor of the Davis Cup, was quoted by the Denver Post as saying that "Tilden probably is guilty of professionalism and should be barred from amateur competition." France retained the Davis Cup because she has three aces, whereas the U.S. has only Tilden. Cochet and Lacoste took turns defeating...