Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have their proxies. Last year President Hoover honored Proxy Dino Grandi, pleased Dictator Mussolini (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha sent two Proxies to Moscow and Dictator Josef Stalin supremely honored them by ordering the first Soviet reception ever tendered to foreigners in the former ballroom of Tsar Nicholas II the marble White Hall of St. George in the Great Kremlin Palace...
That night Dictator Stalin was not the host in Tsar Nicholas' onetime ballroom. Though Comrade & Mrs. Stalin live in three rooms at the rear of the Great Kremlin Palace, though they might have come to the party by taking 100 steps, they stayed away?for excellent reasons...
Dancing, which Turks like now that Dictator Kemal has forced it upon them as a "Western reform" (TIME, Jan. 17, 1927), is still deemed frivolous and degrading by Dictator Stalin, stern Asiatic. Since there had to be dancing in the flower-decked ballroom last week, Premier Molotov had to act as host ? wearing what? Seen from a distance the short, square-headed, black-mustached Soviet Premier looked as though he were in a tuxedo. Actually he was in the blackest business suit he could find, his black tie fixed securely in place by pins in the tabs...
Next day, first thing after breakfast, came "quiet time." Reporters watched The Group members assemble in the sunny ballroom, get out pencil & paper "to take down what God says." Some waited with poised pencils, others took down copious messages. After 15 minutes D. Scoville Wishard said: "Some will want to share what God said." There were many who did, all beginning "it came to me. . . ." Said Jonkheer van Lennep: "God has told me he is blessing this house party." Said Evershed Thompson of the Edinburgh Stock Exchange: "Jesus is here...
...last week for the two most important Press gatherings of the year: the Associated Press convention in the tropical roof-garden of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and the following three-day sessions of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association 15 floors below in the grey & red Waldorf ballroom. Keynote was a message from Harry Chandler, A. N. P. A. president, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, unable to attend the conventions because of illness. Wrote Publisher Chandler...