Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this seemed a good joke until the city fathers of Tongres decided to punish zealous M. Grammens for spoiling the markings on their municipal buildings. Sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Painter Grammens became overnight a Flemish martyr. The embarrassed Government released him after only two weeks in jail...
...tired of one short jail sentence after another, Painter Grammens recently announced an armistice of sorts: no more daubing on official buildings, but plenty of attention to such private undertakings as shops, hotels, garage owners, doctors. Meanwhile, the Belgium Royal Commission on Names and Dialects made haste to appease M. Grammens and all Flemish nationalists. Announced last week was a change of name for hundreds of Belgian towns and villages. Samples: Leuven for Louvain, Ieper for Ypres, Brugge for Bruges, Kortrijk for Courtrai...
...Christmas Carol. (Fri. 9 p. m. CBS). Orson Welles plays Scrooge in a dramatization of Charles Dickens' fantasy...
Lucia di Lammermoor (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red). Lily Pons heads the Metropolitan cast in Donizetti's opera...
President Roosevelt (Sat. 5 p. m. NBC-Blue, CBS, MBS) lights the National Community Christmas Tree...