Word: charioteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...
...military academy. In 1910 he was in Paris assisting, with Picasso and Braque, at the accouchement of cubism. Back in Mexico City he was the leading figure in a group of quasi-Communist artists who have become the leaders in the Mexican renaissance: Jose Clemente Orozco, Jean Chariot. Carlos Merida, Pachecho. They worked for a flat rate of $4 (eight pesos) a day and hired a plump little boy to bring them water and wash their brushes. The water boy was Miguel Covarrubias. now famed smartchart caricaturist...
...Recognized with unerring British Parliamentary instinct that Prime Minister MacDonald's declaration winding up the Second Indian Round Table Conference with vague, conciliatory talk of a Third Conference and greater freedom for India, was in fact a move to keep restive India quiet and hitched to the chariot of Empire as long as possible...
...just such talk Benito Mussolini won support and cash from Italian bankers and industrialists, suppressed Italian Socialism and Italian Communism, then hitched both banking and industry to the chariot wheel of his Fascist State...
Under such circumstances a "realistic" opium policy, according to Minister Soong, cannot be one of prohibition. Consequently Chinese Treasury officials have been sent to Formosa to study Japan's opium system: restricted sales under Government monopoly. If shrewd Minister Soong does harness opium to his Treasury chariot, he may find a way to balance the Chinese budget for some time to come, may find opium an aid in standing off the U. S. silver producers who want to unload on China a silver loan (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week Senator Key Pittman of silver-surplussed Nevada announced in Washington that...