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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foremost social and political architect. In Istanbul's white-domed alabaster Dolma-baghche Palace, in other days the home of sultans and califs, President Kamal Atatürk, long ill, died of cirrhosis of the liver. Beside his death bed wept his sister and two of his most intimate friends: Ali Fethi Okyar, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's who had stood faithfully by the Grey Wolf's side when Atatürk was waging a desperate uphill battle to save Turkey from dismemberment after the World War; and Sabiha Gökgen...
...Dada intellectuals known best in Manhattan were Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending the Staircase) and his friend Francis Picabia. Picabia, born in Paris in 1878 of a French mother and a Spanish father, began exhibiting landscapes in Paris in 1894, enjoyed official successes and easy sales until 1913, when he got fed up with success. Moving first to Manhattan, then to Barcelona, finally to Paris in 1920, Picabia poured out bucketfuls of Dada, including his noted Portrait of Cézanne, Portrait of Rembrandt, Portrait of Renoir, Still Lives (all this consisting of a stuffed monkey mounted on a board...
...three Roman Catholic Cardinals of the U. S., the most ardent friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal has long been Chicago's Archbishop George William Cardinal Mundelein. Last month, after pontificating as Papal Legate at the New Orleans Eucharistic Congress (TIME, Oct. 31), Cardinal Mundelein journeyed to Washington, spent an afternoon cruising with the President aboard the yacht Potomac...
Publisher-Groceryman McDonald blamed the Commission's action on his old foe-shrewd, ponderous, Publisher-Editor George Fort Milton of the rival News, who is an old and valued friend of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. "Publisher Milton," he snapped, "has long swaggered over the country as the lord of the Tennessee Valley. . . . The Free Press will continue to compete with his ... newspaper with every honest means...
Then the Citizen opened fire on a 55-year-old probate judge named Homer Bostwick, accused him of blackmailing a 24-year-old girl into returning such gifts as a diamond ring, an automobile. Judge Bostwick was a friend of Harry Wolfe, who defended him vigorously in the Dispatch...