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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis no local woman has been the subject of more newspaper columns or more shocked social chitchat than lively, red-haired Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, whose father was a Baptist minister and whose brother is a Judge of Missouri's Supreme Court. Until three years ago few St. Louisans knew much more about Mrs. Muench than that she lived comfortably in fashionable Westminster Place with her respected physician-husband and that she once operated a fashionable midtown dress shop that catered to society trade...
...Secretary of State's entourage, as the Conference drew to a close, defended him from the local U. S. businessmen by putting him to bed "with a slight cold." They warmly said that for a man of his years he had done quite enough, and done it very well. At the final Conference windup, Orator Hull was too hoarse to read his speech and that was done by Mr. Velles: "Peace . . . clear vision. . . . Let us return to our particular problems and duties pledging that we will, individually and collectively, reject the counsels of force. Let us hold...
...Eastern Asia, ten years of butchering Communists and belaboring local satraps into submission were climaxed in 1936 by Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek when his China, for the first time, stopped yielding to Japan's more impossible demands and adopted a policy which could be called "strong" (TIME, Nov. 9). Premier Chiang might well have been Man of the Year had he not, at the zenith of his prestige, been suddenly kidnapped...
...Rothschild castle in Austria, the Duke of Windsor cheerily engaged a staff of body servants from local applicants. Strangest post-Abdication event was when the Duke, hitherto notorious as Edward of Wales and as King Edward for his chronic absence from church, suddenly drove in on Sunday to the English Church of Vienna. He chatted at the door with U. S. Minister to Austria George Messersmith & wife, invited them to luncheon, but they had a previous engagement. Then, like abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II who incessantly takes part in divine service at Doom, abdicated King Edward VIII went to the lectern...
...different classes of nebulae. Astronomers apply nebula not only to whole galaxies of stars far beyond the Milky Way. but also to patches of dark or faintly luminous matter within the Milky Way, which is the home galaxy of earthlings. They may be distinguished by calling the local patches galactic nebulae, the great outer star clusters extragalactic nebulae. About 100 of the nebulae within the Milky Way are planetary: that is, they have a star at the core and are presumed to shine by light reflected from...