Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day Greenleaf fans learned their idol had filed suit for divorce from his wife, a Eurasian vaudeville singer who calls herself Princess Nai Tai Ta. When they were first married eight years ago Mrs. Greenleaf took a lively interest in her husband's work, wore a brown en semble at his games for luck. At exhibition matches she also essayed to sing accompaniments to Greenleaf's fanciest shots. When they separated, Champion Greenleaf presented...
...people. Heading the team were Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, famed as an evangelist to high caste Hindus and author of Christ of the Indian Road, and Hankow's Bishop Logan Herbert Roots, able and deeply beloved churchman. Potent speakers have also been President Herman Chen-en Liu of Shanghai University, whose grandfather became a Christian: well-poised Miss Wu, whom all China knows as president of a handsome women's college at Nanking; and Dr. Charles Roger ("Charlie'') Watson, Cairo-born president of the American University at Cairo...
...geography of the Soviet Union and endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia, Col. Raymond Robins who wandered off among the mountains of North Carolina while en route to visit President Hoover (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932, et seq.). In Russia, where the Colonel headed a U. S. Red Cross mission in bloody 1917 and which he revisited on Red May Day 1933, Raymond Robins is known as a man of phenomenal memory, able to recall in minute...
...lies oil. For years one company and another has been reported dickering for oil rights. This autumn Humble Oil & Refining Co., subsidiary of Standard of New Jersey, closed the deal. In exchange for a low rental on drilling rights (13? an acre) Humble takes over the ranch's en tire funded debt (some $3,000,000) on a 20-year note, the interest at 5% payable at the end of the period. This means a yearly income somewhat over $130,000 (figuring the ranch's drilling acres at 1,000,000) in addition to the usual royalty...
...their own estimation Spanish women were more than prepared to vote in a parliamentary election last week for the first time in their lives. By the millions they were up at dawn, swarming around Spanish polling places. Nuns especially turned out en masse to vote against the Socialists who have so cramped the revenues and agelong privileges in Spain of Mother Church. Amazingly, hundreds of wives of Spanish grandees and nobles who have been living fearfully abroad boldly returned, bringing their husbands in many cases, to vote as their consciences commanded. All over Spain the arrival of a priest...