Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris the purchase of a Matisse picture started a friendship with Matisse; soon she was in the midst of the pre-War Paris art world. She and Picasso hit it off from the first: with the interlude of one bad quarrel they have remained best friends. Both of them acknowledge that they are geniuses. Gertrude Stein "realizes that in English literature in her time she is the only one. She has always known it and now she says it." Though she does not believe in popular success she would like to have had a little more recognition. For years...
...Secretary of the Communist Party. Marshal Pilsudski is only War Minister-but both tell their countrymen what to do and are obeyed. Last week Dictator Pilsudski was so pleased by Dictator Stalin's gift that he agreed to put a capstone on the new edifice of Russo-Polish friendship which diplomats of the two countries have been building with trade treaties and non-aggression pacts (TIME, July 17). The capstone: Poland and Russia will shortly raise their respective Legations to the rank or Embassies...
...University of Wisconsin Summer School they have selected a summer queen but the king is still to be chosen. Miss Mattmiller who halls from Helena, Montana, is "five feet, six inches tall, and has sweet charming personality that has won her the friendship of everyone that has met her." It's too bad the king hasn't anything to say about...
...Next day was Emperor Haile Selassie's birthday. The President cabled him: ". . . My most hearty congratulations and best wishes. . . . It has been indeed a gratification and a sincere pleasure to receive His Highness the Ras Desta Demtu. . . . This visit will do much in cementing the firm bonds of friendship between Ethiopia and the United States...
...Dover by the Duke of York. Reporters admired his gleaming white tunic and his golden spurs. Guns banged a royal salute, and Kings, Cabinet Ministers and assorted princes rode down Buckingham Palace Road with a clattering cavalry escort. The welcome was not entirely due to King George's friendship for Irak's King. The British mandate over Irak expired last year and British blandishments are the cheapest means of keeping secure in independent Irak such British '"rights" as the Mosul oil line concession and British staffed airports for Empire ships flying to India...