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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini in his strutting, self-appointed rôle as "Protector of the Mohammedans" has vexed Britain and France for years by giving asylum in Rome to prominent Islamites who for one reason or another have been run out of the Great Powers' colonies. Last week these sloe-eyed clients of the sloe-eyed Duce were zealously trying to recruit for him fierce Arab troops for use as mercenaries against Ethiopia. In Jerusalem, however, the Emir Abdullah of Transjordania, who keeps his throne with the aid of British bombing planes, lashed out with an interview which made prime...
Much as Benito Mussolini goes to King Vittorio Emanuele III to get his decrees perfunctorily signed, Pierre Laval & Cabinet then called at the ornate Elysee Palace of sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun. It took M. le President until 2:30 a. m. to sign the 28 decrees. They were emphatically in the Mussolini spirit, diametrically opposed to the Roosevelt...
...lithe Favorite. Slave. In Les Sylphides he was the sole male dancer, pirouetting classically in white tights and black blouse. In Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice he was an exuberant Broom, bounding about until he ripped his tights open. And, decked with pink blooms in Le Spectre de la Rose, the role which Nijinsky made his own, Haakon managed to be swift and sure" in the soaring leaps...
Maryland's lean, long-armed, young Senator Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the investigating committee, volunteered the opinion that the testimony showed nothing to reflect on Judge Wilson, but "it may reflect on some other people." At that Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes, superior and champion of Governor Pearson, blew up. At a press conference he stormed that "the hearing ought to bring forth just a few facts," raged that Judge Wilson was "bringing the administration of American justice into disrepute in the Islands'' and ought to be removed for "judicial misconduct." Then...
Died. Lieut.-Colonel Alfred Dreyfus, retired, 75, protagonist of France's most notorious cause cèleébre; after long illness (uremia); in Paris. In 1894 Captain Dreyfus, 35, first Jew on the French General Staff, was arrested on a charge of selling military secrets to Germany. Court-martialed, he was convicted of high treason on the basis of a secret dossier, which was later proved a forgery, and other scant evidence including the testimony of famed Handwriting Expert Alphonse Bertillon. Publicly degraded, Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island for life. When it became apparent that...