Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking to the coming season which opens Oct. 27, the report continued cheerily: Thirty-three singers have signed contracts. Mary McCormic, brought to stardom under Chicago's "Our Mary" Garden, will return. New artists will be Sopranos Lotte Lehmann, Maria Rajdl, Contralto Sonia Sharnova, Tenor Oscar Colcaire, Baritones Rudolph Bockelman, Eduard Habich, John Charles Thomas...
Died. Mrs. John Tilden (Maria Filley) Davis, mother of Governor General Dwight Filley Davis of the Philippines; of old age, at her home in St. Louis...
Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Maria Christina, Queen of Spain, sat down at a table in a Biarritz café. A headwaiter frothed up, was sorry but this table was reserved for the Queen of Spain. Victoria rose, smiled, left the place. Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, executive Chairman of Girl Scouts of America, widow of the late New York utilities Tycoon, was reported in the New York World as having lately talked with Pope Pius XI about entering a European convent to take a nun's novitiate, then founding a religious order of her own and becoming its mother superior...
Three of the 32 stamps in the Goya issue (11½, 46¢, $1.15) are reproductions of that acid genius Francisco Goya's best known picture La Maja Desnuda ("The Nude Maia"), a portrait of the bold, bare, buxom Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba. The picture caused trouble when Goya painted it.* Trouble continued last week...
...thusiastic about the Shanks process. Undoubtedly they thought of Daniel Cowan Jackling and his mass production methods in copper mining (TIME, April 28). They set a staff of engineers and scientists to work. They applied their process in 1926, had it running at full speed in the Oficina Maria Elena plant by 1928, saw Maria Elena production rise until today it is by far the biggest producing unit in the industry...