Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luxury hotel, The Cumberland, which opened last week boasting 1,000 air-conditioned bedrooms.* To save George V from death by pneumonia his Bucking ham bedroom was air-conditioned at a cost of ?3,000 during one of London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George V hunched forward in his seat, Queen Mary raised her lorgnette with approving interest. On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre at a command performance for the King's pension fund for British stage folk, blonde U. S. Actress Claire Luce and Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady...
...world" (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). ¶Adjourned over the holidays at 1:30 p. m. after a furious round-the-clock session which began the afternoon before. Battling every clause of the Government's bill to saddle the British taxpayer with the national debt of bankrupt Newfoundland (TIME, Dec. 18), the Laborite-Liberal Opposition were helpless to oppose the Government's Conservative steamroller but finally grew so angry that the House resounded with homely English abuse. "You dirty dog!" shouted Laborite Aneurin Bevan at Minister of Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas who was driving the steamroller. "You swelled...
...Nothing was too good for el Aleman ("The German") who checked Paraguay's steady advance through the pest-ridden Chaco swamps. With more men, more money, better guns. his troops beat off Paraguayan attacks on Bolivia's Verdun in the Chaco. muddy, ramshackle Fort Saavedra (TIME, Dec...
...promote any particular kind of art. ... I will work to the limit but I won't waste my time fighting." Neither a member of a committee nor in immediate want, Artist John Sloan who three weeks ago took over the pupils of the late great George Luks (TIME, Dec. 11), enjoyed the row hugely. 'The trouble is," said he, "the natural result of throwing corn in the chicken coop. There are bound to be feathers flying...
...Cinemactor Tracy made this picture before going to Mexico City where he made news resulting in the cancellation of his contract by MGM. To TIME'S version of the affair (TIME, Dec. 4), Mr. Tracy telegraphed a correction as follows: "YOUR STORY ON MEXICO INCIDENT INACCURATE AND UNTRUE STOP MY REPUTATION HAS BEEN DAMAGED BY A FALSE CHARGE IN YOUR PUBLICATION STOP PUBLIC HAD BEEN GIVEN TRUE AND CORRECTED VERSION AND NOW YOUR LIBELOUS STORY OVERSHADOWS ALL PREVIOUS ONES STOP I REFER YOU TO LOS ANGELES TIMES OF DEC. 3 WHICH CLIMAXES ALL VERSIONS AND GIVES TRUE...