Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second book on Magellan in two months. In Charles Ford's Death Sails With Magellan (TIME. Nov. 15) the ill-fated Portuguese navigator was portrayed as a cold-blooded martinet who double-crossed his best friends, intended to double-cross Spain and set up his own kingdom in the East Indies...
...statesmen who dealt with the Depression." Last spring Belgium's young and vigorous King Leopold III used his great popularity in England and France, his many contacts with London and Paris leaders-both Government and Opposition-to get Paul van Zeeland officially commissioned by the United Kingdom and the French Republic to make "an inquiry into the possibility of obtaining a general reduction of quotas and other obstacles to international trade...
...most desirable first step toward Prosperity, he reported, is "to bring together as soon as possible ... in ... a pact of economic collaboration . . . the principal economic powers . . . France, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany and Italy." Not excluding the Soviet Union or Japan or China, but obviously alive to many practical difficulties, M. van Zeeland would simply make a pact "embracing the largest possible number of states, and in any case open...
...smaller exhibition of larger import opened a few blocks away at the New Burlington Galleries and immediately began to draw comparable crowds. This was the first solo exhibition of England's five-year-old MARS (Modern Architectural Research) Group, which now numbers about 60 members in the United Kingdom and at least one, Harvard's Walter Gropius...
...think that you are at present your normal self, and I wish to give you an opportunity to return to your normal self when you will be able to exercise the abilities and spirituality which you so abundantly possess in the spread of Christ's kingdom...