Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water cure. The question was whether to crown His Majesty with the golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier Nahas knew that the Egyptian people grew accustomed, when they were subjects of Turkey, to seeing each new Sultan symbolically invested with the Sword. Fortunately modern Egypt possesses the gorgeously jeweled sword of Mohammed Ali, founder of the present Egyptian dynasty, or so the Premier thought. Upon actually looking for this historic State Sword, it simply could...
...minor official in the State Department. Secretary Hull was still playing chess with his Department. Having recently consolidated his Eastern and Western European Divisions into one Division of European Affairs, he called in as new chief, J. Pierrepont Moffat, son-in-law of Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew, from his Consulate at Sydney. For James Clement Dunn was created an important new post, adviser on political relations...
Military experts of the Great Powers, hitherto inclined to see Spain's Civil War professionally as a small testing ground for the latest lethal equipment, took some-what more interest last week as the "Battle of Madrid" (TIME, July 26) grew to an extremely desperate conflict between roughly 100,000 Leftists and 100,000 Rightists-not "big stuff" by World War standards, but biggish. Hitherto Rightist General Francisco Franco has mostly remained at Salamanca, his capital, filling the role of Rightist Spain's President, but last week he hurried to field headquarters. There, rubbing his hands with...
Miss Lathrop and Mrs. Jones were thus treated in just about the same way as were Chinese troops of the 2Qth Army commanded by Peiping General Sung Cheh-yuan this week. Japanese Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki grew tired of what seemed to him the stubborn slowness of Chinese forces to yield to his demands that they clear out of North China (TIME, July 26). In an action which Japanese officials described as "maintaining prestige," General Kazuki had Japanese airmen heavily bomb Langfang, a station between Peiping and Tientsin on the railway from which area he was insisting that the Chinese...
...promptly closed all the city's gambling houses. Of these the toughest, most renowned was the old Arcade at 16th and Larimer streets. The Arcade's owner, a Serb named Vaso L. Chucovich, contributed heavily to the mayor's campaign, remained his warm friend, grew rich in Denver real estate and on his death in 1933 left $100,000 for a Robert W. Speer memorial. Denver's wrangles over the execution of this bequest have been periodic art news ever since...