Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's greatest and most completely self-made philanthropist is today Lord Nuffield, raised in the New Year's Honors list from baron to viscount (TIME, Jan. 10). About a month ago Nufneld registered privately in high Fleet Street quarters a mild protest at the habit English reporters had of describing him as plain and hearty "Bill" Morris, the bucolic bicycle maker of Oxford who cleverly expanded into building Morris cars and grew so rich in 25 years that to Oxford University alone he has given $17,700,000 (TIME...
...ignored. Fortnight ago, with the evident consent of the General Staff, a general on active duty declared that there was to have been a Communist coup d'etat on November 16, but that word of it reached the Staff in time for the coup to be nipped (TIME, Jan. 17). After this startling development, suggesting that French Army leaders knew a great deal more than the Chautemps Cabinet was eager for the public to learn, trouble was bound to pop- and last week it popped...
...Chicago (Alice Brady, Alice Faye, Tyrone Power, Don Ameche; TIME, Jan...
...Buccaneer (Fredric March, Akirn Tamirofi, Franciska Gaal, Margot Grahame; TIME, Jan...
Wells Fargo (Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Bob Burns; TIME, Jan...