Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, when the annual talks began, there was a new, serious air about them. For one thing, Russia's new Ambassador to Tokyo Constantin Smetanin knew what he was talking about. He used to be a professor of ichthyology. Furthermore, Ambassador Smetanin was appointed to his post the day Japan agreed to a truce in the Outer Mongolian border fighting-after Russia had trounced the seatful pants off the Japanese Army. He was in a position to dictate...
Foreign Minister Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura began to think of a "permanent arrangement." Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma called correspondents in to tell them: "We are anxious to settle pending questions and we hope that Russia reciprocates our desire in all sincerity." Domei News Agency, which plays Little Sir Echo to the Foreign Office, advocated concluding a non-aggression treaty with Russia "without paying the slightest attention to displeasure felt and loudly voiced by Britain and the U. S." This week Ambassador Smetanin had an audience with the Son of Heaven, H. I. M. Hirohito...
...hopeful young Lifer Whitsitt has been an exemplary prisoner. Three years ago his excellent behavior got him a break. He was allowed to sell a story he had written of life in prison. Then he began to talk prison officials into letting him ghostwrite crime articles for them. Last month he earned $145 that...
...Paris, Vienna-born Composer Oscar Straus, 69 (The Chocolate Soldier), was granted final French citizenship. In London, Rogers S. Lament, Manhattan lawyer, distant relative of Banker Thomas William Lament, took the oath of allegiance to King George VI, began training as an artillery cadet. In a Ukrainian city, Ruth Marie Rubens, 31, Philadelphia woman who went to Russia in 1937 on a forged passport, became U.S.S.R. Citizeness Ruth Friederichnova Boerger. In Manhattan, Elisabeth Rethberg, Metropolitan Opera soprano, received her final papers for U. S. citizenship...
After 18 years in a Swiss insane asylum, Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in 1937 began to show marked improvement, was released last fall, is now living in Adelboden, Switzerland. Last week pictures reached the U. S. showing Nijinsky once more in the normal world: accepting a glass of wine from his wife, Romola, looking speculatively at a bin of vegetables in a Swiss market place, in concerned conversation with friends, smiling warmly (for months at a time he never smiled...