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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this beginning grew the Oxford Union of today. The Society fills the Debating Hall, located in one of its two splendid buildings, every week with from 350 to 500 undergraduate members. Here Britain's embryonic Parliamentarians and business leaders undergo their first forensic bombardments. The "maiden speech" at the Union is an event recalled fondly in later life by many a British statesman. Overlooking the scene of the weekly debates stand the busts of a King and three Prime Ministers--all once leaders of the Union. The speakers who meet Harvard tomorrow evening have received their training in this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swigert Discusses Character, Progress of Debating in Oxford Union Society | 12/4/1931 | See Source »

Marshal Louis Franchet d'Esperey, 75, once the youngest General in the French army and but one day older than its youngest marshal (Petain), stopped briefly at Trinidad last week on the maiden Caribbean cruise of the French liner Colombie, was welcomed by British officials and most of the populace. Trinidad understood what brought him. A courier had just arrived from Cayenne, French Guiana, with word of a drastic administrative reform inaugurated by Governor Bouge. Most of French Guiana is unexplored. Preliminary surveys show traces of gold, silver, lead, copper. There are phosphate deposits and valuable rosewood forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Inini | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...famed Dollar-round-the-world (Westbound) system, whose newest liner, President Coolidge, is now bound for the Philippine Islands on her maiden voyage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Biggest Pool | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

sailed from Manhattan on the S. S. President Coolidge on her maiden voyage, in charge of the shipboard branch office of William Cavalier & Co., brokers. At San Francisco Mrs. Moody will board the ship, sail to the Orient to play in invitation tournaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...tear." Actor Cohan, who wrote the piece, also wrote in a little part (that of the young litterateur's sister) so that his pretty daughter Helen Frances might make her Broadway debut. Cloudy With Showers- This is the one about the shy college professor and the skittish maiden who bets that she can make him enamored of her - and wins the bet. At no time does the farce get any closer to sanity than those late famed collegiate musicomedies, Good News and You Said It. But Cloudy With Showers has a certain breathlessness about it which may amuse before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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