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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Across dazzling millions of little sun-flecked wavelets Prime Minister Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha last week came sailing home. Smiles softened his arrogant face. Fellow passengers noted with what gusto His Excellency ate. Oranges he seemed especially to relish. Here was a contented traveler who had been to distant London and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Magna Carta ? | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

"What you expect to find, gentlemen," said Prince Ernst, "is not here."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Prince's Henchmen | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Last week, with the principal Rumanian harvests barely five weeks off, sealed bids were received at Bucharest from leading European locomotive works. Only one concern-a German syndicate-took seriously the Prime Minister's ultrashort time limit. They would supply him with 100 husky harvest-pullers-if Rumania would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Harvest-Pullers | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

The facts of the case disclosed the working methods of the group who had been making a fortune out of what they termed "the medico-dental racket." They sold forged licenses and diplomas for fraud "doctors" to hang on their office walls at an average price of $2,000. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quacks Quashed | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Last week one shrewd doctor decided that she had hiccoughed so long she had forgotten what it was like not to hiccough, was therefore psychologically incapable of helping herself. He gave her a strong, nauseating drug, put her to sleep. When she awoke her mind was so occupied with her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hiccoughs | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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