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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Peshawar, British India, anyone possessed of the sum of 6¢ could obtain a graphic idea of what King Nadir meant by "severe punishment." Photographs were on view, at 12 annas a peek, showing the execution of Bacha Sakao, the Water Boy Bandit King (TIME, Nov. 11). Contrary to official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Again, Water | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

After seven years of power, business-like Dictator Kemal is itching to save wasted hours. But he is cautious. Last week he merely tabled before the National Assembly a bill which, if taken up and passed, would make the first day of the Turkish week fall on what is now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Mephisto v. Allah | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

The Taming of the Shrew (United Artists). When Shakespeare made characters out of medieval chronicles just like the living English people he knew, and wrote words for them which often sounded like real talk in spite of being broken up into iambic lines, he was doing what the producers of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Last week unexpected aid came to the Hoover industrial program from a bull outside the herd. Irving T. Bush,* head of Brooklyn's mammoth Bush Terminal, announced the completion of three years of negotiations in the formation of Bush Service, Inc., U. S. A. The new company combines the facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bullish Bush | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Having arrived at the convention, Sir Henri made what is reputed to be his first formal speech, talked on "Common Sense in the Oil Industry," said no more about his "no compromise" position. Said he: "The idea that it might be possible that the 'collecting department' [that which supplies the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Oil Compromise | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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