Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still on closest, friendliest terms with Italy is Bulgaria, despite the fact that II Duce's plan of marrying Princess Giovanna to Tsar Boris of Bulgaria was blocked at the very last minute (when His Majesty was actually en route to Rome) by Pope Pius XI (TIME, April...
...canvassing of peers old and young last week by Lord Parmoor was a most creditable compromise. The Labor Government agreed to put through the "dole" bill with a three-year limit, instead of the one year desired by the House of Lords, thus saving faces all round and en abling the measure to be wisely labeled "experimental." Said the Laborite Daily Herald, official organ of prudent Scot MacDonald...
...fang is 32. At the age of seven he had mastered Chinese music, studying with his uncle Yu-ti'en, famed musician and virtuoso on the stringed hu-k'in. When he was twelve, Mei Lan-fang, grandson of a great actor of the '50s, made his own debut as a tan (female impersonator). The impersonation of women is perhaps the greatest branch of Chinese acting, for women are not permitted on the stage.* Mei Lan-fang plays women's rôles entirely. He is president of Peiping's Actors' Association and his superiority in his calling is unquestioned...
...Emperor Pro Chi'en Lung forbade women to act in China 150 years ago, after his son had eloped with an actress...
...Aviation Corp. of the Americas, which owns Pan American, buys control of NYRBA and so ends U. S. competition in the region. Another watcher of the fray is a little known U. S. concern, Paris American Airways, which competes with Pan American from Porto Rico to Trinidad, crossing en route Guadeloupe and Martinique. Another observer is the Colonial government of the Bahamas. Governor Charles William James Orr from his hill-cresting House at Nassau sees with no equanimity Pan American planes carrying mail, passengers and express between Nassau and Miami, and from Miami dominating the whole Caribbean. He wishes...