Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moderate Premier Azaña had anticipated Companys' States' Rights demands, but he was flabbergasted last week by another demand of the Left parties that had put him into power. It was that Spanish employers be forced to take back every employe they had dismissed since Jan. 1, 1934, for any reason whatsoever. This demand covered not only Socialist work men who had murdered loyal employes and bosses during the revolutionary troubles but also embezzling cashiers and dimwit incompetents...
Nine years ago in Vienna a stocky young tenor with wonderful teeth arched his stout chest into the high notes of a Korngold opera, The Miracle Of Heliane. Since then Jan Kiepura has risen to fame in European screen operettas...
...announced his retirement from the Metropolitan Opera Company three years ago, Manhattan newspapers devoted columns to his proud career, his intelligent use of a voice that was never booming, his subtle impersonations of such villains as Iago in Otello, Chim-Fen in L'Oracolo, Scarpia in Tosca (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). When he sang his farewell performance a great audience cheered, wept, sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. When he died in Naples last week there were only four mourners to follow him to his grave...
...telephone wires, AP Subscribers William Randolph Hearst and Roy Wilson Howard fought the plan as an "unjustifiable extravagance." First picture transmitted when Wirephoto got going last year was news: an airplane wreck in upper New York State. Other first-day photographs seemed to justify the Hearst-Howard complaints (TIME, Jan...
Arrayed as Admiral of the Fleet, the Sovereign last week held the first investiture of the new Edwardian reign at Buckingham Palace. Trooping gravely in came the distinguished Britons who figured in the last New Year's Honors List (TIME, Jan. 13), which beloved George V approved but did not live to sign. Of these the most famed is Feminist Christabel Pankhurst, who became at the hands of Edward VIII a sedately honored Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire...