Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before breaking with Nahas Pasha the King had proposed that his differences with the Premier, chiefly about matters of political patronage and spending of the Egyptian treasury's secret political funds (TIME, Jan. 3), should be arbitrated by a high tribunal to be composed of all living former Premiers, former speakers of the Egyptian Parliament and high legal officers. This royal offer Premier El Nahas, who has a huge majority in the present Parliament, refused, declaring: "Only Parliament is able to adjudicate this matter...
Tovarich (Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer; TIME, Jan...
...fingers through his long grey hair, folded his arms, grinned, yelled, gestured, strode to & fro, swung his spectacles. On this occasion Photographer Edward Steichen was not engaged in conjuring life out of some apathetic sitter. He was helping several assistants dismantle his studio for good. As of Jan. 1, 1938, Edward Steichen was through with commercial photography...
...smart Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh's East End, Westinghouse engineers installed a wireless telephone and three transmitters, announced that they were sending "up to a radius of 2,000 miles" on station KDKA the complete Calvary service. Only two months before, Calvary's Rector Edwin Jan van Etten had listened to the world's first radio broadcast, on KDKA-the Harding-Cox Presidential returns...
Mayor Wilson's suit has yet to come to trial. Meanwhile, Mayor Wilson got the city council to notify U. G. I. that it would get no new lease on Jan. 1, 1938. When U. G. I. went to work conciliating individual city councilors with hearty lunches of fried oysters and chicken salad, the mayor shouted over the radio that U. G. I. was "pumping air into the gas supply...