Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Were refused details of what took place at the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Viscount Halifax (TIME, Nov. 29 et ante), but were told by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that "the visit has been valuable in furthering the desire, which I believe to be generally felt in both countries, for the establishment of a closer mutual understanding." This sounded so pro-German that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German, succeeded in getting French Premier Camille Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos invited to London, where they arrived this week to try to discover where His Majesty...
Caisse Hypothécaire Maritime et Fluviale, 78 Rue de Provence, of which the managing director is Eugène Deloncle, a consulting engineer at the Penhoët shipyards, has established the existence of a secret paramilitary organization modeled on army lines. It consists of a general staff, four intelligence departments and a sanitation service...
...conspiracy was minutely prepared. During the searches discovery was made of material for forging identity papers, instructions for the transportation of arms, information on the strength of the Paris police force, as well as that of the adjoining departments of Seine-et-Oise and Seine-et-Marne with the names of their commanding officers, also card-indexed information concerning a large number of military officers and the material of certain regiments...
Jean v. Paavo. Politically and by temperament Sibelius is a nationalist. A large number of his early works (Kullervo, the Karelia Suite, Finlandia, et al.) were written as patriotic tributes. Though no one has succeeded in identifying any of his melodies as folk themes, considerable controversy still goes on as to whether he has been influenced by national Finnish idioms. His ancestry contains both Finnish and Swedish strains. Clergymen, doctors, merchants and small landowners, including a few intelligent musical amateurs, were his progenitors. He springs from the great ranks of the bourgeois...
This week for the fourth successive year the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh announced that the most popular painting at the Carnegie International Exhibition was a seascape by 76-year-old Frederick Judd Waugh (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934, et seq.). Mr. Waugh's Meridian got 800 votes out of a total of 5,000 cast by visitors who had no less than 407 paintings to choose from...