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...over on them by extending recognition to the Spanish Rightist regime of General Francisco Franco while the Lords and Commons stand adjourned. Laborite Clement Attlee, the tiny, terrier-like Opposition Leader barked demands for a specific promise that Parliament would be reconvened ''before the Government embark on any new policy which would render imminent the granting of belligerent rights to General Franco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Personal Friendship | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Four concerts have been planned for the Glee Club on its annual spring trip to New York, which will start Thursday, when 63 men will embark on the boat in time to arrive for the first concert on Friday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNUAL SPRING TRIP TO BE MADE BY GLEE CLUB | 3/31/1937 | See Source »

...informed local Soviet authorities that they will not eat outside their car, thus saving their Russian hosts the cost of local banquets for the U. S. Ambassador. He will feed as many local bigwigs as possible, also five U. S. correspondents. Next the Davieses will hurry to Manhattan, embark on their yacht for the Coronation (see p. 19), thence cruise to Leningrad where they will maintain the yacht ready for use at all times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Notes | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Dignified Prince Edward, after dining for a last time with his Queen Mother, new King George VI, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent, drove last week at great speed through night and fog to Portsmouth, intending to embark on the Admiralty Yacht. At the last moment this plan was changed; the name of the yacht is the Enchantress. It was dignified to sail instead on the British destroyer Fury, and "His Grace, the Duke of Windsor"-as Prince Edward was created this week by King George VI-debarked at Boulogne into a private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prince Edward | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...news that their father, a New York banker, divorced ten years ago, is planning to marry again. Instead of laughing at this news as sophisticated children might well do, the small Craigs react like little Peppers. They decide the situation demands action. Borrowing fare from their nurse, they embark for New York, arrive when Judson Craig (Charles Winninger) is sitting down to lunch with his inamorata, Precious (Binnie Barnes). From the moment when the three little Craig girls dash into a hotel dining room to embarrass their father with cries of "Daddy," his romance is doomed. When Judson Craig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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