Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revival is "Animal Kingdom," starring Ann Harding as the mistress whose lover was unfaithful to her, via his wife. The superficiality of the plot, and the obvious trickness of the reversed situation of wife and mistress, does not make this film worth seeing, but "The Count of Monte Cristo" is worth the sacrifice. Better still, arrive after the one, and just before the other...
...this Bolshevik toast Mr. Eden, who, after all. is not Britain's Foreign Secretary, cautiously replied: "My visit is purely exploratory and not to negotiate. . . . After my return from Moscow, Warsaw and Prague there will be further consultations between the Foreign Secretaries of the United Kingdom, France and Italy at Stresa. ... I raise my glass to the happiness and prosperity of the peoples of this great country, to the President of the All-Union Central Executive Committee [Comrade Kalinin, puppet 'Soviet President'] and, Monsieur Litvinoff, to your very good health...
Great last week were expectations when Chancellor Chamberlain closed his current budget. He more than fulfilled them. Today the Kingdom is lofting out of Depression at such a rate that the reduced income tax brought in almost exactly as much revenue as did the higher tax last year. Chancellor Chamberlain closed with a surplus of ?7,562,000 ($36,297,600) last week-best possible "window dressing" for the general election the National Government must fight soon after the Royal Jubilee...
Wrote Christopher Columbus: "In the same month that Their Majesties [King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella] issued the edict that all Jews should be driven out of the Kingdom and its territories-in that same month they gave me the order to undertake my expedition of discovery...
...With world nickel sales up 27% and orders from the United Kingdom at an all-time peak, International Nickel Co. of Canada reported 1934 profits of $18,487,000 against $9,663,000 the year before...