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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When his tormentors had had their fill, the Ambassador showed he hadn't been a diplomat 41 years for nothing. Said he disarmingly: "I don't pretend to enjoy this, but shan't we have another?" Reporters and Ambassador made a date for another press conference. Next day those few bigwig reporters who had been invited to the garden party also received bids for their wives, just like other people. At one stroke the Ambassador had undone half the damage done by his U. S.-born wife, and set a standard for press relations which his successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: His Majesty's Press Agent | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Then Queen Elizabeth made her first speech, and exercised the Royal prerogative to break a date. The date she broke was engraved in six-inch letters on the cornerstone of the new Supreme Court building which will rise on a bluff overlooking the Ottawa River. Unwary of the fact that Their Majesties' visit might be delayed, engravers had marked the stone as laid on May 19. Blithely, with an ivory-handled gold trowel, the Queen tapped the stone on May 20, declared it laid, chatted with a Scottish stone mason whose accent moved her to remark: "You haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...covered bully-boy of the world. The Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm's day differs from the Germany of Adolf Hitler's day in that it had 18,778,491 fewer people and 50,545 fewer square miles in Europe. Aggrandizer Hitler's Germany does not to date possess Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany's African and Asiatic colonies, but since these accounted for less than 5% of pre-War Germany's export and import trade, they are not the major factors in the altered economic picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Wehrwirtschaft | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...team hopes that Yale will come up as planned, but in view of their reluctance to play on a previous scheduled date, a suitable substitute has been provided in Vermont, and a game will be played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Victorious Ruggers Slated To Tackle Eli Ten Tomorrow | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

Things are definitely looking up on the local music situation with Harry James riding in for an Adams House date Monday and Jimmy Lunceford here for the Jubilee next Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

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