Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final in less than two years, with the United Presbyterian Church of North America which has 1,121 congregations and 242,996 members. United Presbyterians are called "Psalm-Singers" because their church admits no hymns. Having voted this merger, the commissioners burst into the Doxology and "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord...
...Europe and immovable Foreign Minister in all Masaryk cabinets. The firm of Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient kingdom of Bohemia and surrounding Slavic territories from the prostrate body of Austro-Hungary to make a new republic. It so happened that this territory contained the rich rolling plains of Slovakia, the great Skoda munitions works, the potent Bat'a shoe factories, rich coal deposits, glass and steel works...
...heroic, with a true Russian flavor unblemished by oldtime Russian melancholy. Alexander Porfirievitch was a sane and optimistic artist. As the bastard son of a Prince of Imeretia he never had to worry for his livelihood. His father received a life-long pension after the Empire annexed his little kingdom in 1810. As a boy Alexander Porfirievitch played expertly on the piano, the cello, the flute. But he also showed a talent for medicine which his family regarded as a more respectable profession. He served two years in a military hospital, struggled with chemistry until he became a professor...
...should like to recapitulate the history of the proposal for an arms embargo. It was on the initiative of the British Government that an exchange of views took place originally more than a year ago, between the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Italy, with a view to an agreement between them prohibiting the export of arms to Bolivia and Paraguay...
Thirty Day Princess (Paramount) shows how complicated the flotation of an international bond issue may become when conducted by Hollywood instead of Wall Street. This picture provides Sylvia Sidney with a dual role. As Princess Catterina Theodora Margherita ("Zizi'') of the Kingdom of Taronia, she is brought to the U. S. to help market $50,000,000 worth of Taronian bonds. As Nancy Lane. Miss Sidney is a shabby minor actress, spending her last 17? in an Automat. Princess Zizi fails ill of mumps. Fifty detectives hunting a double for her come upon...