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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Security. With the idea of mak-ing the world safe to disarm, the disarmament committee of the assembly unanimously approved the French project of empowering the League Preparatory Disarmament Commission, while arranging for a general conference on limitation and reduction of arms, to study means of making arbitration compulsory and of instituting a graduate system of security among Nations (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: At Geneva | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Blasco Ibaņez, none the poorer, absconded from Buenos Aires, and now no more dares show his face there than in Mexico. In both places, far from 'founding schools and colleges,' he has left outstand ing a long and painful score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Decadent? | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...which will provide the most extensive retail machinery known to bookmakers. Doubleday, Doran & Co. will do everything for an author but write his book; and for a reader, everything but read it. In England the famed firm of William Heinemann, Ltd., is the property of the new company, hav ing been controlled for some time by Doubleday, Page. William Heinemann is dead. Fourteen miles outside of London stands the Heineman plant. The total list of active titles of these combined companies (including lesser subsidiaries) will be about 4,000. Doubleday, Doran authors include: Cobb Conrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Book Business | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Communist, eying the passersby. It was night, but through the gloom Communist Missiroli descried the forms of Ettore Mury, Commander of the 81st Legion of the Fascist Militia, and Renzo Morigi, Secretary of the local Fascisti. As they strolled by, conversing earnestly, Communist Missiroli drew a gun, fired, wound- ing Signer Mury in the stomach, Signer Morigi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Shootings | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...than two U. S. artists to sing in one performance. Last week, in honor of the American Legion visitors, The Barber of Seville was given with U. S. artists in all the principal roles. Those who pleased most were Madame Luella Melius, coloratura soprano, and Theodore Karle, tenor. Applaud- ing in the audience sat: Frieda Hempel, Ganna Walska, Madeleine Keltic, M. Fitzhugh, Charles Hackett, William Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes: Music | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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