Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Were dismayed amid their efforts to get through first reading the longest measure ever submitted to Parliament-the India Bill giving a more liberal status to the Empire's vast subcontinent (TIME, Dec. 3)-by news that at Bombay last week the turbaned and bejeweled Maharajas of India's Chamber of Princes adopted a resolution as follows: "This meeting desires to emphasize that in many respects the bill and the instrument of accession depart from agreements arrived at during the meetings of representatives of the Indian States with members of His Majesty's Government. It regrets...
Best novel-The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel (TIME, Dec...
Dolefully Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine, evangelist to whites and Negroes in New York's lusty Harlem (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933 et seq.), admitted: "No, I am not God, but millions of people think I am and I'd like them to believe...
...defendant was Philadelphia's Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, who for months had been volubly telling how Presbyterian Modernists were persecuting him and other Presbyterian "Bible-believers" (TIME, Dec. 31). The indictment, brought against him by the New Brunswick Presbytery which still claims his allegiance, was a six-point elaboration of the fact that he had defied his Church's orders to resign from the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. The trial was limited by the Book of Discipline to one session every ten days. That it was even held publicly was a concession to Dr. Machen...
Married. Grant Wood, Iowa artist (American Gothic, Dinner For Threshers -TIME, Dec. 24); and Mrs. Sara Sherman Maxon, music teacher in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where both grew up; in Minneapolis...