Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When today a British statesman [Neville Chamberlain] demands that every problem which lies in the midst of Germany's life interest first should be discussed with England, then I, too, could demand just as well that every British problem first is to be discussed with...
...Agency, are shikar (hunting) and zenana (harem). In shikar, where elephants assist, the Maharajas have never made a serious misstep; but in zenana. they have made mistakes. Last week Indore's incumbent ruler. His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur* indicated that his interest in zenana was over. He was married...
...actress. Both were married. Gable's wife was a well-to-do Texas widow ten years his senior, whom he had married the year before, after divorcing a dramatic coach. Lombard's husband was Actor William Powell. At this first meeting, neither Gable nor Lombard showed any interest in the other...
Head of the group is Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, who has been publisher of TIME since 1937, was managing editor of FORTUNE (1930-35), an editor of The New Yorker (1925-30). In the new enterprise, no TIME Inc. venture (neither TIME Inc. nor any of its officers has an interest, financial or managerial, in the project), Ralph Ingersoll's associates include ex-Associated Press Executive Edward Stanley, Mystery Story Writer S. Dashiell Hammett, Banker Harry C. Cushing of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc., Manhattan Lawyer John F. Wharton. Its corporate name: Publications Research...
...include some of the best Margaret Bourke-White has done. Slighter than their classic word & picture study of the South, You Have Seen Their Faces, it unfortunately appears when Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected by a chauffeur with club and revolver, the authors distributed black bread to starving peasants, some of whom had not tasted bread in seven years. Best...