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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Interstate Commerce Commission last week chose a new chairman for 1930 and simultaneously gave him more work to do than he or anyone else could possibly accomplish in a year's time. By a process of rotation Frank McManamy, whose I. C. C. service began 23 years ago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Merger Plan Hatched | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

His Highness Maharaja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur left Christ Church College, Oxford, to assume the throne of Indore, having reached his majority. His father abdicated in 1926. He will be enthroned early next month, will control 9,519 square miles.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Conservative attacks on the bill were led by famed Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, whilom Chancellor of the Exchequer, who enjoyed a piece of Scot MacDonald's birthday cake in New York last fall (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week Cake-giver MacDonald lashed out at Cake-eater Churchill: "You are making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The rainbow bending in the sky, Bedecked with sundry hues, Is like the seat of God on high And seems to tell the news That as thereby he promised To drown the world no more So by the blood which Christ hath shed. He will our health restore.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Morrow! | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Pacified and intrigued by such unanswerable "American arguments," the Deputies next day gave the Tardieu Government a vote of confidence, 331 to 167. Paradoxically, Tardieu the pseudo-American proclaimed later in the week a policy in regard to the Hoover-MacDonald Five Power Naval Conference which might prove obnoxious to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: American Arguments | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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