Word: leone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playwrights are eternally tickle in their geographic affections. A few years ago India was in high favor as the romantic setting par excellence, more recently it has been Spain, and now we find Leon Gordon, who you will remember wrote "White Cargo" and Sir Patrick Hastings conspiring to popularize the dreadful woes of life in Africa. Sir Patrick has dubbed his "comedy" "The River. The river in question happens to be the Mungana, and is, of course, located somewhere in the bejungled interior of that very dark continent, on one is quite sure where. Hence we have a mystery...
...Leon Campbell, of the College Astronomical Observatory staff, will deliver a 15-minute radio talk from Station WEEI, beginning at 6.45 o'clock this evening. Following the public educational program adopted by the Observatory staff early this fall, Mr. Campbell will speak in a non-technical manner on "Eclipses of the Sun, Moon, and Stars...
...seven days were spent by M. Painlevé in endeavoring to parry the efforts of M. Leon Blum and the Socialists to force a definite expression of the "capital levy" (TIME, Nov. 16 et ante) into the bill. Nominally the Painlevé Government is "supported" by the Radical-Socialists, the so-called cartel des Gauches, nominally headed by M. Herriot. Actually M. Blum split off with his Socialists a fortnight ago and had the Government at his mercy, because without his votes Premier Painlevé could not command a majority in the Chamber...
...They were: Briand himself (Premier and Foreign Minister), Viviani (Justice), Ribot (Finance), Doumergue (Colonies), Meline (Agriculture), and, serving as "Ministers without Portfolio," Combes, Leon Bourgeois and de Freycinet...
Died. General Michael Frunze, 40, ruthless Soviet commander, exterminator of many Tsarists, sometime assistant and since last January successor to Leon Trotzky in the post of Soviet War Commissar (Minister); at Moscow, after two operations for intestinal ulcer. The Soviet Government gave a funeral "second in size and impressiveness only to that of Nikolai Lenin...