Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week after Queen Wilhelmina went on record for a free Netherlands Commonwealth, to be democratically governed by all its people (TIME, Dec. 14), Adolf Hitler appointed Dutch Nazi Leader Anton Adrian Mussert "Leader of The Netherlands people...
Russian Revolution. With his four turn-of-the-century plays-The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard-Anton Chekhov, a tuberculous Russian doctor, quietly effected a revolution in the theater. Tossing out the well-made play with a cast-iron plot, he substituted a fluid, unemphatic, uneventful picture of life-the life of a fiberless leisure-class Russian society...
...world,† the Philharmonic was now the patriarch of some 225 other U.S. orchestras. So stable a feature of Manhattan had the Philharmonic become that only twice in a century had its concerts been postponed: once on the death of Abraham Lincoln, again on the death of Conductor Anton Seidl. One Philharmonic feature would still be familiar to Ureli Corelli Hill: With an annual deficit of about $100,000, the Philharmonic is still a losing proposition...
Died. Leopold Anton Johan Sigismund Josef Korsinus, Count von Berchtold, Baron von und zu Ungarschitz, Fratting und Pullitz, 79, one of the numerous men individually charged with starting World War I; in Sopron, Hungary. He was Austria-Hungary's Foreign Minister from 1912 to 1915, wrote his Government's ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife in Sarajevo. An Austrian Red Book in 1919 charged that Berchtold used fraud to get Emperor Franz Josef to sign the declaration of war-that he referred to a fictitious Serbian attack, then hastily expunged...
Beamed to conquered Europe across the Atlantic WRUL has been one of the major outlets for Allied propaganda. Such stars among the Harvard faculty as Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and J. Anton DeHaas, William Ziegler professor of International Relations have appeared on the program "The Fight for a Free World...