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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near suburban Barbizon, spiritual home of the world's greatest landscape painters, Mayor Roger could contain himself no longer last week. The village plumber had been to the Villa Ker Monique to repair pipes. He had found it barricaded with barbed wire and guarded by two fierce watchdogs. He had been locked in the room in which he worked. The village postman added the sinister fact that no mail ever came to Ker Monique. A courier on a motorcycle came there every day from Paris. With Stavisky, international spy rings, and rumors of brewing civil wars to inflame French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fourth International | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...musicians and the bearers of the royal insignia. The new Queen, her hair elaborately wound about a tiara encrusted with precious stones, received the Imperial seal and the golden book. Finally she arose and bowed her forehead to the floor three times, in the traditional Chinese kowtow (pronounced ker-toe) of thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANNAM: Wedding & Thanks | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...known as Lloyd George's political secretary at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919-Rt. Hon. Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced "car"), Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle, Baron Ker, 11th Marquess of Lothian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...Negro Robert Harris, member of the Order of Islam (religious society), was arraigned on a first degree murder charge of killing Negro James J. Smith with a knife and automobile axle. Said he: "I killed this man with the crucifixion, because it was crucifixion time. I said 'Ali-ker-slump,' and he fell dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion. Mr. Par ker helped invent ping-pong. His firm, Parker Brothers, controls the U. S. rights to ping-pong and manufactures 640 other indoor games of which Mr. Parker person ally invented more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ping-Pong | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

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