Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vajda story has Garrick invited to Paris to appear with the Comédie Française in 1750. Preceding him there flies the rumor that he is coming over to teach the Frenchmen how to act. The angered members of the French company prepare an extravagant hoax, take over an inn Garrick must stop at en route, man it with players from their troupe. Plan is to give Garrick an alarmingly warm welcome. Tipped off, Garrick and his man Tubby (E. E. Horton) affect serene indifference to the staged hubbub...
Long Ears Equal Wisdom? Second only to the paradox that Japanese should restore Peking's name last week is the paradox that the Japanese military Com-mander-in-Chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, was an intimate friend and cash contributor to the fortunes of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the late Father of the Chinese Revolution who is revered as a Saint at Nanking, the Chinese Capital. Long ears, characteristic of all Japanese statues of the divine Buddha, are considered to indicate wisdom in the Orient. Last week the Shanghai correspondents of the New York and the London...
...ways by local English tradespeople who still speak of him as "Prince Freddy." Invariably Farouk's four "F" sisters dressed like demure English schoolgirls with pigtails down their backs. Queen Nazli excelled her brood in snapping, developing and printing photographs. Her Majesty is a descendant of a French com-mander of dragoons whom the Emperor Napoleon took to Egypt, and from this ancestor King Farouk inherits his "heavy dragoon" appearance, big-boned, healthy and hefty, with a fair complexion most rare in an Egyptian. Like many people of Arab strain, however, His Majesty is not only "quick at arithmetic...
...Prime mystery to Wall Street analysts has always been the exact part played by "little fellows" in market activity. To clear it up the Securities & Exchange Com-mission started last month to tabulate and release daily figures on odd-lot trading (less than loo-share lots), which makes up about one-fifth of all Stock Exchange transactions. Last week a full month of these figures provided solid data for experts in New York and Washington. Total buying orders for 2,934,843 shares with a value of $126,257.589 compared to total selling orders for 2,395.990 shares with...
...battle between pickets and police before Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). In Chicago a "mass funeral" was staged for three of them by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Meanwhile the violence of the S. W. O. C. strike against three big independent steel com- panies-Republic, Youngstown and Inland -subsided. In Detroit, where fortnight ago United Automobile Workers organizers were beaten at the entrance to Ford's River Rouge plant, the fighting shifted to court. On both fronts the combatants took advantage of the lull to maneuver for position. On both sides...