Word: baba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baba. The U. S. four years ago was fascinated by the arrival of a long-haired, silky-mustached Parsee named Shri Sadgaru Meher Baba (TIME, May 2, 1932). Called the "God Man," the "Messiah," the "Perfect Master," Meher Baba never speaks. The God Man claims to have been strictly silent since 1925, carries a little alphabet board on which he deftly spells his mute revelations (see cut, p. 37), among which is the declaration that he is in an "infinite state." He became that way, he says, after kissing an ancient holy woman named Hazrat Babajan, remaining in a coma...
...Baba. In Tokyo the new Finance Minister, successor to assassinated Greatest-Japanese-Finance-Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, is that departed statesman's wily stooge, Mr. Eiichi Baba. As governor of the Government-controlled agricultural bankers' bank the Nippon Kwangyo Ginko since 1927, ingratiating Eiichi Baba has made the most of opportunities to become friends with the Radical-Militarists. The Army is almost entirely of peasant stock and absolutely resolved that exploited and oppressed Japanese rustics shall now get their innings. In Tokyo last week it was considered more than likely that wily Stooge Baba had sold the Army some...
...Experiments-Nervously Japanese businessmen awaited the new Finance Minister's first pronouncement. They were even more nervous after scanning what Mr. Baba had to say. Speaking obviously as the Army's Stooge, he announced "increased taxes, new experiments, the raising of Japanese defenses to a satisfactory state, restitution of the farming and fishing industries and expansion of the Nation's strength...
...Aimee & Philip Stuart; Harmon & Ullman, producers). How does a sensitive child feel when her widowed mother decides to remarry? According to the playwrighting Stuarts, it depends on the character of the child. When Jennifer Lawrence (Peggy Wood) agrees to marry Sir John Corbett (Louis Calhern). her younger daughter. Baba. is thoroughly pleased. Baba (11-year-old Jeanne Dante, in her third play) is a pudgy little hedonist, fond of chocolates and a general good time. Sir John wins her affection easily with a theatre party and promises to teach her to play golf, sail a boat, ride a pony...
...Children's Hour (TIME, Dec. 3). Birthday boasts a stageful of convincing actors. As Irene. Antoinette Cellier repeats her London success, is a properly moody adolescent. Producers Harmon & Ullman have provided a fairly credible London scene which will be completely so when they tear the NRA label out of Baba's school coat...