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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, who has been in scandalous eclipse since his resignation from the Cabinet after the Budget leak (TIME, June 1 et ante), is nevertheless a Privy Councilor for life and last week was out in full regalia with the 300-odd other Privy Councilors in the Throne Room of St. James's Palace to hear King George VI read his accession address: "... I take up the heavy task. . . . My first act ... to confer on [Edward] a dukedom. . . . He will henceforth be known as His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor. ... I declare to you my adherence...
...week the absolutely ideal Prime Minister to weather an English crisis by applying precisely those qualities of bulldog smugness which have strewn his career in foreign affairs with disaster after disaster and are today threatening to gum the works of British Rearmament and imperil the Empire (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante). Again & again Mr. Baldwin has told the House of Commons that "my lips are sealed" until this has become a 1936 British byword for hypocrisy. Came last week, however, the Supreme Crisis in which the curiosity of the world had to be kept unsatisfied day after agonizing...
...head of the Nicaraguan National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, Rebel Somoza last June virtually seized control of Nicaragua (TIME, June 8 et seq.). He forced Liberal President Juan Bautista Sacasa to quit before his term had expired, made it necessary for Congress to appoint Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin Provisional President to fill...
...brain case discovered in England appeared to be older than Piltdown Man. A cranial piece dug out of a California creek, though probably not much more than 30,000 years old, looked like the oldest human relic ever found in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Few weeks ago from the cave at Chou-Kou-Tien, whence the famed pair of skulls belonging to Pekin Man first came to light in 1929, came news that two more skulls had been found. Reported from China last week was a fifth skull of Pekin Man, with the nose...
...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 this summer learning how to dance & kick), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bellini's Norma...