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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state of War with Germany.* In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill celebrated his return as First Lord of the Admiralty with a speech in which he said: "It [the Athenia] was certainly torpedoed without the slightest warning and in circumstances which the opinion of the world after the late War-in which Germany concurred-had stigmatized as inhumane. . . .The ship was not armed as an auxiliary cruiser...
...election as a shrewd diplomat who would be an authoritative moral policeman among Europe's thugs. He succeeded a man who had learned early in life (in sorry Poland, ironically, where he was Papal Nuncio just after World War I) to fight against extreme ideologies, and who late in life had waged that fight-particularly against Naziism-with superhuman strength. "No good Catholic" Pius XI had said "can be a Socialist"-and before he died he made clear especially not a National Socialist...
...reburied old King Tutankhamen and London's famed Tate let it be known that up to August 31 more than 60% of its 2,600 pictures and 400 pieces of sculpture had been removed to three large country houses, locations unannounced. Already moved were 140 canvases of the late great pre-Impressionist Joseph Mallord William Turner. On the floor near the ladies' lavatory, still waiting their turn for evacuation, were the sculptures of very-much alive Jacob Epstein...
...late, great Edward Wyllis Scripps had three sons, James, John and Robert. Eldest Son Jim quarreled with his father and was packed off with a string of small papers, most of them in the northwest, which became the Scripps League. The Scripps League is now run by his two sons, strapping Edward Wyllis Scripps and lanky James G. Jr. The Scripps boys take themselves seriously, used to write a weekly bulletin called PEP for their staffs, have paid such low wages that once when a publisher begged a raise for a $28-a-week business manager, Jim Scripps wrote back...
During the first quarter of the century records had their first boom. Disc-fans of that period paid the late Enrico Caruso alone some $3,000,000 in record royalties. What they paid for was a croaking shadow of Caruso's ringing voice. But in the days of hand-cranked Victrolas, even shadows were marvels of scientific progress. When the radio arrived in the early 20s, Victor Talking Machine Co., with Caruso as its biggest name, was doing more than half the industry's business to the tune of more than $50,000,000 annually...