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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the vote was finally taken docile peasants rolled up an overwhelming total of 455 ballots out of 486 for Rooster Saratzeanu. Only nine representatives voted for Prince Carol. The remaining 22 ballots went to a popular Army corps commander, General Presan. The 39 members of the Liberal party, die...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: New Regent | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Sometimes a President may prudently say what he dare not write and publish. Last week tall, patriarchal President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, potent Father of His Country (founded Oct. 18, 1918 when Czechoslovakia was recognized by the Allies), spoke privily and at length to a Hungarian of utmost probity, Dr. Franz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Magnanimous Masaryk | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

The first secretary of Afghanistan's Paris Legation was asked by U. S. correspondents what he thought were the intentions of Nadir. "To you gentlemen," he replied, "I may best characterize the Nadir Khan a sort of George Washington. There is the interesting possibility, that like your great countryman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Fall of Kabul | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Coffee sellers were panicky, coffee buyers bearishly swell-chested. Plummetlike the price of coffee plunged-down 200 points for two days. Each point is 1/100?. What the howlers called "Dec-Santos!" (coffee from Santos, Brazil, for December delivery) fell, for example, one day from 19.25? to 17.25?, recovered somewhat, hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Coffee Crisis | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Laurence Stallings, author (Plumes), playwright (What Price Glory?), is now a planter in Caswell County, N. C. Last , week he took his first lot of tobacco, some 400 Ibs., to Danville, Va.; sold it for $112.01.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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