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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cried M. le Colonel Prosper Josse: "Clemenceau was the only legislator I saw during the entire War who came within five metres of the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Political Week | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...State Police, to watch over the town while the State Industrial Commission parleyed there on the strike. The State Police were in town at the request of Mayor John J. Pritchard, whom the Walsenburg city council declared a virtual dictator during the disturbances. Mayor Pritchard cried: "Bolshevism shall not prosper in Walsenburg as long as I am mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Horrid Scene. | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...unexpectedness at a joint meeting of the German and Prussian cabinets, called to decide whether the Reich would extend to East Prussia, this year, financial aid totaling 72,000,000 gold marks. . . . Experts had displayed to the joint cabinets statistics proving that East Prussia, handicapped by isolation, can; not prosper unless temporarily subsidized. The cabinets, impressed, but faced with a necessity to economize, hesitated. Came Hindenburg. . . . He spoke as the civilian President of the Republic, but those who listened saw in their mind's eye the great Commander-in-Chief who, in 1914, had flung back the Russian armies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Victor of Tannenberg | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...unflinchingly, and even with positive enjoyment. For, to the last man, they will realize that only in so far as the less fortunate members of those communities are encouraged, protected from the risks of poor living conditions and offered opportunities for self advancement, just so far can a community prosper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCUSSES P. B. H. SOCIAL SERVICE | 11/8/1927 | See Source »

...garden, supper is served and the cast and its invited actresses sit down in costumes of She Stoops to Conquer, The Rivals or perhaps Henry VI. There is no significance in this gathering; it is simply a custom of The Players, where the gentle riches of tradition prosper in seclusion. Some say the ghost of Booth that evening sits down at table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Hampden Elected | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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