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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King George. "It is sad to recall," said Leopold III, raising his glass, "that I should, in 1935, have paid to His Majesty King George V and to your dear mother the visit which I pay to Your Majesty today. The sorrows that have befallen your family and mine, grievous as they are, have forged a further link of mutual sympathy and friendship between our royal houses and, through them, between our two peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Kings & Tsar | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...hosts were tolerant of their temporary weekend guests on the whole, considering the resulting increase in telephone and laundry bills. But one exception was the host who came in at five in the morning. "I found a guy sprawled on the floor and thought he was a friend of mine, so I balanced a glass of water on his shoulder and then kicked him. When he looked up I found I'd never seen him before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

Jean Peron, a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. Frenchman, broke his leg in a northern Ontario gold mine in 1930, was compelled to give up mining engineering, eventually became a journalist. One night last week the blue-eyed, 50-year-old M. Peron was busy in his little office on Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal preparing the next edition of his two-year-old weekly, La Clarté (The Light). Suddenly six provincial police barged in, seized all correspondence and files, evicted Editor Peron and his assistant, stoutly padlocked La Clarte's doors and windows. In M. Peron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Light Locked | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...cost $65,000 but the Rivoli got that back in the first three months. Carrier systems went into the ape-house of the New York Zoological Park, into the White House and the Senate chamber, into the Secretariat in Delhi, India, into the world's deepest gold mine in South Africa. By 1929 Carrier Engineering Corp. was doing an $8,000,000 a year business and retaining $672,000 as profit. Formed in 1930 was the present Carrier Corp., a holding company. Then came Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carrier to Syracuse | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

MIDAS OF THE ROCKIES-Frank Waters -Covici, Friede ($3). A native son's firecracker salute to Winfield Scott Stratton, discoverer of Colorado's fabulous Cripple Creek gold mine, the ex-carpenter whose eccentricities, secretive dissipations, tightfistedness, double-dealing make lively reading, but not, in Author Waters' account, much sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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