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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact of Mme Chiang's having fainted passed the official Nanking censor of dispatches in English. The chief censor of such dispatches is normally Mme Chiang herself. A most charming, accomplished Wellesley graduate, the Dictator's wife makes the official English translations of his speeches. He consults her in all things and it was she who drew him into the Christian faith (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). Last week Mme Chiang, her brother T. V. Soong, who is the financial kingpin of China, and her brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, who took on the functions of Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pain in the Heart | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...OXFORD BOOK OF MODERN ENGLISH VERSE-Edited by W. B. Yeats- Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Books | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Some of the newcomers were given an opportunity to win their spurs in French and Italian operas, some in the popular-priced auxiliary season demanded by Juilliard. Most smashing popular-priced success was a lively performance of The Bartered Bride in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met's Metamorphosis | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...Abravanel, and an old one re-engaged, Richard Hageman, who will be on hand to direct the U. S. premiere of his Capon-sacchi. Another U. S. premiere was to be Cimarosa's more-than-a-century-old Secret Marriage. Both operas are to be sung in English. Manager Johnson also plans revivals of such operas as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, Smetana's Bartered Bride (held over from last spring), Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or (for which Lily Pons spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met's Metamorphosis | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Among Mayflower's "hazardous ventures" was to put up $300,000 to further the seismic explorations of F. Julius Fohs, an oil geologist. Eventually Geologist Fohs discovered the English Bayou Oil Pool in Louisiana and Mayflower stock-holders received stock in Fohs Oil Co. now worth $2,500,000. Another venture was a $4,000,000 investment in Rhodesian copper properties, a commitment which was long thought to have been fabulously profitable. Actually, Mayflower lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Abandoned Mayflower | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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