Word: caroll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balkans did the great offensive of the war of nerves find a soft spot in the defense. In Rumania, King Carol made a speech of surprising firmness, declaring that Rumanian frontiers could not be changed. In Yugoslavia, Croats and Serbs gave promise of ending their feud...
...protector against the Roman Catholic Church. Dr. Rushbrooke, with no particular national ax to grind, made a speech which further suggested that, in Europe, religious minorities like the Baptists try to play off governments against established churches. He blamed "the sinister figure of the priest," rather than King Carol, for Baptist troubles in Rumania. He paid his respects to "the intolerant temper of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Spain," but cited Generalissimo Franco's pledges for freedom of worship, which he said he believed...
...Court ruled that temporary Communism, since discontinued, is not a deportable offense (TIME, April 24). Running the Bridges defense was a lady veteran of the Strecker fight, and of a lot of other celebrated "liberal" cases, notably those of Angelo Herndon, the Scottsboro Boys and John Strachey. She was Carol Weiss King, 44, a short, swart, athletic Manhattan widow with bushy black eyebrows and thick eyeglasses, a specialist in labor and radical defense work, particularly alien deportations. Examiner Landis was stern with her when she opened her case with a long statement to the effect that Harry Bridges was being...
...power of the famed Soong sisters of China has long been an open book. The influence of Magda Lupescu, mistress of Carol II of Rumania, is openly acknow edged in Rumania. But the role that Edda Ciano, née Mussolini, has played in the momentous recent realignments of European nations, has been half concealed by a regime which refuses to admit women in politics. The Official Life of Benito Mussolini, by Giorgio Pini, a translation of which was recently published in London, allots only three short sentences to Daughter Edda: 1) to report her birth; 2) to tell about...
...Rumania the 3,078,820 peasant families -more than 1,000,000 of them living in plain clay huts, more than 500,000 living with cattle in the same room-watched their crops of wheat and rye, mustered what enthusiasm they could for the ninth anniversary of King Carol's accession to the throne next week: 2,000,000 of them had no cow, 1,600,000 no pig. But as the high waters of the Danube receded, Rumania's 60,000 professional fishermen prepared to gather their regular harvest of carp and sturgeon trapped in canals...