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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next precedent broken occurred when, after receiving the Congressional delegation including Speaker and Mrs. Rainey (blue satin), Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom (violet blue crushed velvet) et al., the President retired upstairs. Mrs. Roosevelt, unlike other First Ladies, remained behind to watch the dancing. Instead of giving the guests ice water for refreshments, the Roosevelts had fruit punch and cake served in the State Dining Room...
...democracy out of the League, as he has rooted it out of Italy. Last Spring he tried to create an "authoritarian" bloc of Great Powers to put the League in its place by drawing Britain, France and Germany into Italy's (his) Four Power Pact (TIME, June 9, et ante). The Pact's authoritarian aim was blighted when France, urged by her Little Entente allies, injected before the Pact was signed a clause making it operative "within the framework of the League...
...proudly as he flaunts the orchid in his buttonhole, mighty Manhattan Lawyer Samuel Untermyer flaunts his Jewish blood. The skill which earns him fattest fees he gives gratis to the Jewish crusade to boycott German goods until Adolf Hitler's anti-Jewish campaign shall end (TiME, Nov. 13 et ante). Last week found Boycotter Untermyer a passenger on the cruising S. S. Monarch of Bermuda. Down to the dining saloon he prowled to inspect arrangements for the Captain's dinner. To his horror he found paper caps, paper flowers, tin rattles, fish horns, surprise crackers, rolls of confetti...
Despite the piety of his two dead wives, Dictator Calles is well known to rate in the Vatican's estimation as a ruthless enemy of Rome (TIME, July 26, 1926, et seq.). Cried Chief Tabasco Delegate Arnulfo Perez: "Where is the God who cannot see the lack of food and all the misery of the common people but can see the pomp and splendor of the Pope? . . . God did not create man. . . . God exists only in books, by which the priests exploit the poor! Man created God, and God only exists in petrified souls. . . . Mexico wants...
Back to Bangkok from their seaside villa ventured King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni last week, thus signalizing that tranquillity had been restored after the bloody revolt led by princes of the Royal House (TIME, Oct. 23, et seq.). Duty bound to open the Siamese National Assembly last week, His Majesty consulted an astrologer as to what would be "the most propitious moment." On the astrologer's advice His Majesty opened at 11.02 a. m. sharp...