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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England's Lord Lister for whom his eldest son was named. When Governor Graves this week appointed him to replace his wife, Senatress Dixie, the New Deal's leaders in Congress scored one victory, one defeat: When Lister Hill joins the New Deal bloc in the Senate chamber, the chairmanship of his Military Affairs Committee-the legislative guardians of TVA-will fall to one of the stanchest foes that TVA has in the House, Kentucky's Democratic Andrew Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Victory & Defeat | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Robert Cutler '16, Boston; lawyer, Director of the Boston Community Fund in 1937 and Director of the Boston Chamber of Commerce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Nominate Fourteen Candidates for Overseers | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

...badly beaten at the polls was King Carol's subservient Premier George Tatarescu that, even though-Rumanian law allows any Government that fills 40% of the seats in the lower chamber 75% of its voting power, he could not muster a majority. Last fortnight's elections showed that the three strongest parties in Rumania are: the National Liberal Party of beaten Tatarescu, the National Peasant Party of wild-eyed Julius Maniu, the Nazi-sup-ported Iron Guard of Zelea Codreanu. All three were objectionable last week: the National Liberal Party because they were damned as pro-French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: God, King, and Nation | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

This week royal decrees proroguing Parliament for a month were sent to be read in each house. The Senate quietly voted nonconfidence in the new Cabinet 83-10-4 but accepted the decree. In the Chamber, just as His Majesty's decree was about to be read by the Speaker, Dr. Ahmad Maher, irate ex-Premier El Nahas leaped up and tried to make a speech which began "In the name of the Fatherland. . . ." Tumult erupted, the police were called and the lights of the Chamber were extinguished, but the deputies, milling about in semidarkness, managed to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Royal Fascist? | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...other fads & fancies, the music world mourned the death of Composer Ravel, most noted French musician of his generation. It was not as the concocter of that booming bit of cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as the composer of two operas, numerous songs and chamber music works, and of a half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three continents. A miraculous orchestrator and an adept at poetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Ravel | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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