Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exclusive fun of the proletariat. Last week in Rome some of the strides which European workmen are making toward an easier and more varied life-irrespective of what kind of regime they toil under- brought into genial conference the chief exponents of Fascist and Nazi labor: for Italy, Grand Councilman Tullio Cianetti, president of the Fascist Confederation of Industrial Workers; for Germany, Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert...
...were the clank of dishes in his father's restaurant, the clatter of the Second Avenue El, the confusion and bustle of the ghetto. At 10, the aggressive, wild-haired little boy was the best rollerskater in the block. Even then he would spend his pennies in a Grand Street arcade listening to a mechanical piano hammer out Rubinstein's Melody in F. He was not much older when Mother Gershwin bought a worn old upright, chiefly to keep up with a relative who owned one. Brother Ira was her first choice to play it. George showed more...
Married. Prince Charles Bernadotte, 26, nephew of King Gustaf V of Sweden, brother of the late Queen Astrid of the Belgians; in line of succession to the Swedish throne; to Countess Elsa von Rosen, 33, daughter of King Gustaf's Grand Master of Ceremonies, who two years ago divorced her cousin by whom she has three children; in Stockholm. By marrying a commoner, Prince Charles forfeited his rights to the throne, his Swedish title as Prince. He became a Belgian Prince by decree of his royal brother...
...Cincinnati Symphony had been hired to conduct the world premiere of Don Juan de Manara, a bloodthirsty opera differing widely from Mozart's Don Giovanni, which he had composed for the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. He had succeeded in combining with his own company the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique. Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe had been billed to dance. Metropolitan Opera participants included Kirsten Flagstad, Gina Cigna, Kerstin Thorborg, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett, Giovanni Martinelli, John Brownlee. The Coronation season was to last eleven weeks instead of the usual...
...last year there were $5,374,000,000 in foreign dollar bonds outstanding. Of this grand total no less than $2,000,000,000-38%-were in complete or partial default. Many an issue is so hopeless that market quotations are no longer available. In listing a 6% issue of the State of Coahuila (Mexico) the council was unable to learn the original offering price or the purpose for which it was sold. Yet Russian Imperial bonds repudiated by the Soviet 20 years ago, are still active on the New York Curb Exchange. Last week's price...