Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great issue before the world today is whether present political quarrels and economic tensions are to end in another Great War. As Victim No. 1 of the last War, small Belgium has a great stake in maintaining Peace. Last week Citizen Paul van Zeeland of Belgium made a report on the world economic situation that claimed the attention of the world's Presidents. Dictators, Premiers and their ablest political and economic experts...
...Nanking, where outrages by Japanese soldiers had continued for over a month, Third Secretary Allison and Charles Riggs of Nanking University, a U. S. citizen, went out last week with a Chinese woman. Their object was to try to identify Japanese soldiers whom she accused of having raped her thrice. Since Japanese soldiers had taken the woman from the agricultural implement shop of Nanking University, Mr. Riggs had applied to Third Secretary Allison for help...
Meanwhile, last week the U. S. State Department continued to busy itself with the case of famed Mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens (alias Robinson), one U. S. citizen officially known to be in jail in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 27). In Moscow on December 9 able, active U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson learned that Mrs. Rubens had "disappeared"' from the big Hotel National next door to the U. S. Embassy. On January 18 the Soviet Foreign Office finally admitted that Mrs. Rubens was under arrest, failed to say on what charge...
...first act is an introduction to Grovers Corners and its inhabitants. During the course of it Mr. Craven calls upon a little squirrel of a professor to give the geological history and other recondite data of the town, and also upon a prominent citizen to sketch in the general tenor of the place and to answer the questions of a Communist, a cultural uplift lady, and a W. C. T. U. worker, all scattered through the audience. The second act deals with love and marriage, and the third with death...
...bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans Masereel, with News event, a horror panorama of agonized soldiers, screaming mobs and weeping women, and in the lower right-hand corner a well-dressed citizen reading a newspaper and smoking a cigar...