Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Paul van Zeeland was Premier of Belgium he proved, as Newspundit Walter Lippmann wrote last week, "to be perhaps the most efficient, the least confused and the most sure-footed of the statesmen who dealt with the Depression." Last spring Belgium's young and vigorous King Leopold III used his great popularity in England and France, his many contacts with London and Paris leaders-both Government and Opposition-to get Paul van Zeeland officially commissioned by the United Kingdom and the French Republic to make "an inquiry into the possibility of obtaining a general reduction of quotas...
Called to the phone from his 44th birthday dinner, little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria heard the voice of an old friend, Bulgarian-born Locomotive Engineer Gus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. Mr. Phillips had met the Tsar, an enthusiastic locomotive driver, on a trip to Bulgaria in 1932. After exchanging $31 worth of pleasantries, Tsar Boris rang off. Previous gifts that have passed between the Tsar and the Nebraska engineer include two miniature locomotives from Gus Phillips, 16 bottles of choice wine and a diamond stickpin from Tsar Boris...
Married-Pauline Louise du Pont, 19, daughter of General Motors Director Henry Francis du Pont, second cousin of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; to Alfred C. Harrison III, 27, Manhattan lawyer; in Christiana Hundred...
Saturday, January 29: Math. A, section III, at 11 o'clock in classroom...
Just in case some of the audience came in late, Act III takes everybody willy-nilly back again to the party in Act I. This time even the dunces in the back row can hear the irony of the Conways' hopes., The audience knows how time will cheat them, already feels a little cheated itself...