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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juggernaut. On March 15, 1919, in the city of Paris, some 1,000 U. S. veterans met to forget the War. On hand were such men as Captain Ogden Livingston Mills, Lieut.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Colonel William J. Donovan, Major de Lancey Kountze, Colonel Bennett Champ Clark, Major John Thomas Taylor. With Colonel Clark in the chair, they formed themselves into a society whose purpose was expressed in a preamble: "For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution . . . Law and order . . . 100% Americanism . . . Memories . . . Individual obligation to the community...
...Botticelli drawing the date, a list of all the reproductions that have ever been published, all previous owners, all exhibitions at which the original has been shown, along with descriptive passages from text books. The Borro portrait has been variously ascribed to Velasquez, Bernini, Carreño de Miranda, Tinelli, Andrea Sacchi and others. The Frick Museum was not to be caught. All these claims were listed on the back of the photograph and a brief summary of the entire argument attached...
While Portuguese from, the back country, in their large-brimmed felt hats, leaning on their quarterstaves, toiled up the Lisbon terraces through the gay Lisbon streets to celebrate the great day, Dictator General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona last week gave Portugal its first nibble at parliamentary government since he set up his self-styled "Dictatorship without a Dictator" in 1926. Instead of the oldtime Chamber of Deputies, an elected National Assembly met last week; and instead of a Senate, a Corporative Council appointed by Carmona who is very much a Dictator. With this blend of Fascism and Democracy...
...peak of her career? "Because I like the sun best when it is high." Last week in Manhattan Death came to Marcella Sembrich who, save for Schumann Heink and Calvé, was the last survivor of an age which produced Patti, Lilli Lehmann, Melba, Nordica, Nilsson and the two de Reszkes...
Among the things which onetime King Alfonso XIII left behind when he scuttled out of Spain in 1931 was a battered packing case in the palace basement, crammed with jewels worth $5,000,000, and marked "E. de B." for Eulalie de Bourbon, his sharp-tongued aunt. Spain's revolutionary rulers, who loved the Infanta Eulalie for her republican sympathies and the way she scolded the King, put the case away in the vaults of the Bank of Spain, promised to send it to its owner in Paris. Last week, having waited four years for the Government to keep...