Word: andre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change of front in 60 minutes of rapid-fire French sat writers from lands as far apart as Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson, Henry Seidel Canby, Carl Van Doren, Vincent Sheean. But many of the delegates (German, Italian, Spanish) could claim no country...
Died. José Aranguren, onetime Republican Commander of Barcelona's Civil Guard, the brave Colonel Ximenes of André Malraux' novel, Man's Hope; before one of Franco's firing squads; in Barcelona...
...idyll did not last: Trotsky was touchy, Rivera proud. Not long ago Diego Rivera wrote a letter to his (and Trotsky's) good friend, the French surrealist poet, André Bréton, gave it to one of Trotsky's secretaries to type. Léon Trotsky chanced to see a copy of the letter on the secretary's desk, and before he could stop himself, he had read enough to get very angry at Rivera's un-revolutionary and disloyal words. Trotsky made some remarks about Rivera. Rivera found the remarks "unacceptable." Trotsky dispatched...
With the whole world thus searching for loopholes in the British pledge, Septuagenarian Chamberlain this week rose again to speak in the House. In the diplomatic gallery U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Maisky, French Ambassador André Corbin listened. On the floor the group of M. P.'s who had long scoffed at the Prime Minister's efforts to get along with Herr Hitler hung on his words...
...real name is André Isaac. He is a singer, an actor sometimes at the Deux Anes (Two Asses) theatre, author and editor of the funpaper L'Os à Moelle (Marrowbone). Each weekday at 13 h. 5 ( 1:05 p. m.) for the last year he has sent Parisians by the hundreds rummaging high & low for varying collections of oddments, to be produced within two hours at a designated rendezvous. An open street is usually necessary for the arriving candidates and their equipages. This was evident from the start, when the first after noon hundreds of participants piled into...