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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considered the money-dispensing leader of Arab terrorists, Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, remained in exile in nearby French-mandated Lebanon. But in London the much respected Times blared forth against him: "It is impossible to expect an early termination of this tragic state while the Mufti is using French-mandated territory for his operations. . . . Meanwhile, young Jews, with their patience exhausted and with the obvious inability of the British to protect them, are having a fling at their Arab enemies! cost them what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Two to One | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Educational Ballets. But Educational Ballets, backed by Baron Frederic D'Erlanger, jumped the gun and opened a season of ballet at Covent Garden with the original de Basil ballet's No. 2 choreographer, David Lichine, as director. The flittery world of the ballet having sprawled into another grand écart, World-Art announced that it would open this week across the street at Drury Lane with Massine in charge. Meantime Ballet's forgetful and forgotten man. Col. Wassily de Basil, moped off to Paris where he planned to open a restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grand Ecart | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis Horst, patriarch of the movement, prim N. Y. Times Dance Critic John Martin, its principal evangelist. While London's ballet world was rent in a grand écart, Bennington's modern dancers heaved together in a lusty assembl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Assemble | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Highest price ever paid lor a thoroughbred is $300,000. Last week Martin Benson, London bookmaker, paid that amount for undefeated Xearco, an Italian horse who won the Grand Prix at Paris last fortnight, his 14th victory in a row. Only other $300,000 purchase price was for Call Boy, 1927 Epsom Derby winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Disappointment | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...told by Dana Burnet in the Saturday Evening Post for Sept. 14, 1918, later, as a picture in 1929. Faith such as Hollywood has always shown in such stories seldom goes unrewarded. As it emerges from its previous tellings, The Shopworn Angel is still a tear jerker in the grand manner-simple, senile and heroically sentimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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