Word: generale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which last week began a campaign of noncooperation and threatened one of civil disobedience, was swamped with 300 other princely protestations of loyalty and extravagant promises of support delivered in person or by telegraph to New Delhi. > The 60-year-old Maharaja of Bikaner (19 guns), also a lieutenant general, who has fought for his King-Emperor on three continents (China, Egypt, France), enlarged Britain's war chest by a personal gift of $20,000, and a State gift of $30,000, and offered six battalions of native infantry and camel corps. Still doing his bit, His Highness took...
...world's first fully accredited woman diplomat, Minister Kollontay has had 16 years' experience in Scandinavia. Handsome, spirited, cultured, fashionably dressed, Mme Kollontay has long been an exquisite hostess whose invitations were eagerly sought. More than anyone else, this talented revolutionary-turned-diplomat, daughter of a Tsarist general and a part Finnish mother, would be able to tell Negotiator Stalin just how solid Scandinavian neutrality was, just when and where the Scandinavian countries might fight to retain...
...Louis' Union Station, a crane last week deposited 19 excelsior-padded, jute-swathed statues on the pavement of a waterless fountain. The bulky packages looked like mummies but were the livelier fragments of a long controversy (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937; June 6, 1938) over nude statues in general, these in particular. They were the figures for famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri-known locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony...
...father a paint brush for his birthday. A highlight of the current show is Still Life with Ferdinand, the toys Mark chose when Aaron asked him what he would like in a picture. Friends have interpreted it as an allegory of the Spanish civil war: the straw general on horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn-out limbs of the rubber doll, monarchy lurking in the book Babar the King. Mark and Aaron both smile at this. They like the picture for the same reason others like it-because even when...
Resources Board junked, then his National Defense Power Committee. In came an old body, the National Power Policy Committee, headed by New Deal Goalie Harold Ickes. The plans of this Committee are largely conceived in the fertile head of its General Counsel, scholarly, drawling Ben Cohen. It plans to study U. S.'regions in need of new generating capacity...