Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even more dramatic were French preparations in East Africa, where Italy also has some unfulfilled "aspirations." Artillery reinforcements were en route to Djibouti, French Somaliland. French authorities began recruiting natives to add to the 6,000 Somaliland defenders and to match Italy's concentration of 15,000 men on the Ethiopian and Eritrean borders...
This public hinting to the College of Cardinals pointed to the likelihood that, in private, there was tremendous pressure at work, probably more than at any time since the days when Catholic monarchs exercised a veto over the conclave. Wrote Michael Williams, U. S. Catholic journalist en route to Rome: "If certain powerful influences known to be deeply concerned both in Italy and neighboring countries are effective in their behind-the-scene maneuvers, the conclave will be greatly prolonged beyond the few days requisite for the slow and orderly movement of even the most obvious decision in the Vatican...
...Producer Gabriel Pascal last year astonished the cinema industry by screening the first of a series of Bernard Shaw's plays, whence all but him had fled. Last week, en route from Hollywood to London to start work on The Doctor's Dilemma, he stopped off in Manhattan long enough to announce his future plans: a repertory company to make two Shaw pictures a year and, in 1940, a film biography of Amelia Earhart, to be made with the assistance of her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and a score by Conductor Leopold Stokowski after the expiration...
...bitter controversy which has long ranged within New York labor circles. There, in an atmosphere much beclouded--perhaps almost completely conditioned--by personal and political factors, several local teachers' unions have been unceasingly persecuted by a few other teachers, a good many rival labor leaders, and the Hearst press en masse. Because of a personal connection between the New York embroilment and the A. F. of L. Committee on Education, which is responsible for the "red" scare, it is easy to conjecture the latter as a deliberate maneuver to obscure New York issues...
Yasuo Kuniyoshi likes black & white touches so much that rare is the Kuniyoshi composition without a magazine, a corner of newspaper, a wrought-iron figure, a brunette en chemise. Another thing he likes is playing with webby threads of paint as a pastry cook plays with icing, to catch the light and give his canvases lustre. His great-eyed, meanderingly drawn figures often seem to exist in a mussy halo of phosphorescence, with vast spaces of mere paint around them. This highly mannered style does not satisfy Kuniyoshi, but it is the first one he has made fully and expressively...