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...Daugherty-Miller trial (TIME, Sept. 13 et seq.) had crept from screaming front-page headlines into the technical seclusion of inner- page stories long before its third week had begun. But as the third week ended, it again leaped back into prominence with revelations of peripatetic Liberty bonds and burned bank records. Important developments...
...Assembly of the League of Nations adjourned last week after a momentous session lasting 20 days (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) during which Germany was admitted to the League, the question of permanent League Council seats was adjusted, and the Locarno Pacts were finally rendered operative by the deposit of their ratifications with the League Secretariat...
That the Dictator Premier considers his power appreciably bolstered by the plebiscite was seen last week when he telephoned King Alfonso XIII and asked if the monarch would pardon several artillery officers implicated in the recently suppressed mutiny against the Government (TIME, July 5 et ceq.). Replied King Alfonso over the telephone, "Si! I will pardon them." Forthwith the mutineers' sentences (one, the death penalty) were commuted...
...Then a despatch reported that the Yaqui have been forcibly prevented by the Calles Government from making their usual pilgrimage to certain of their (Catholic) shrines. Allegedly their attack upon Obregon was intended as a reprisal for the Mexican Government's suppression of the Church (TIME, Feb. 22 et...
Prince Chichibu, though he turned the compliment deftly, may well have felt a smouldering pride at the thought that no personage of the blood imperial is known to have equaled his achievement in scaling nine of the principal mountains of Europe.* (TIME, Aug. 30, et...