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Fanny, the pretty little Burmese-Italian half-caste, was the immediate cause of Mandalay's downfall. When good King Mindon died, and the unscrupulous Supaya-lat married Thibaw, a minor prince, and engineered a coup d'etat which landed him on the throne, his brothers and their supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road to Mandalay | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

In 1900, he became president of the Omege, the Agricultural Society of Hungary. Later he was elected to the Lower Chamber, when he began a vigorous campaign against Count Tisza, leader of the National Work Party, whose policy was to sacrifice the common people to the interests of the Empire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNT MICHAEL KAROLYI TO SPEAK AT FORD HALL FORUM | 2/1/1930 | See Source »

Wrote he: "In the eyes of more than half the world we are making an exhibition of ourselves in the Philippines. . . . Conditions exist there which are at present nothing short of scandalous. . . . The attempt was made to impose the nationalist ideal upon a group of peoples having no need for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Govern or Get Out | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

Reginald Weir and Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boys, Juniors | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

In a quiet, smoky room in Manhattan, 32 of the foremost bridge-players of the U. S. met in fours last week to play for the Harold S. Vanderbilt Cup. At a corner table the donor of the cup sat, ruddy, youthful, in a brown business suit. Expert Sidney S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Forcing v. Vanderbilting | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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