Word: counts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty were chary to a Westerner coming here to teach Harvard professors how to teach, and Hanus was forced to work alone. His courses, which did not count towards a degree, were given as a part of the Philosophy Department's curiousness...
Confined at No. 10 Downing Street by gout, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain one day last week had Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi in for a cozy, significant lunch. Afterward, Whitehall buzzed with rumors that His Majesty's Government were about to permit Generalissimo Francisco Franco to open throughout the United Kingdom consulates flying the crimson & gold flag of Rightist Spain. Same day Soviet Russia hastily abandoned the obstructionist tactics by which she has kept the London Committee for Spanish Non-intervention from taking steps to carry out the famed British "Scheme...
...document signed by Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, by Japanese Ambassador Masaaki Hotta and by German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop last week declares that "Italy will be considered an original signatory of the pact" between Japan and Germany, although it was signed last year, and that Italy's signature last week is "equivalent to signature of the original pact." Ambassadors Hotta and von Ribbentrop, having signed this ludicrous concession to a Dictator's vanity, were each rewarded by Vittorio Emanuele III, King and Emperor, with the Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice & Lazarus...
...orchestral compositions, in 52 U. S. cities. An organ debutant with the Chicago Symphony nine years ago, when he was 20, Germani is now official organist of Rome's Augusteo Orchestra. As Benito Mussolini's favorite musician, he played at the wedding of Daughter Edda and Count Galeazzo Ciano...
Convicted. Colonel Count François de la Rocque, Croix de Feu leader, of slander, for denouncing statements made by Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo as "maliciously false" (TIME. Nov. 8). Fine: 3,200 francs, trial costs...