Word: minster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON--Prime Minster Chamberlain today, in a last minute effort to bring into Europe's "Peace Front", publicly in a single handed war against Germany...
...Very Reverend William Foxley Norris, 78, Dean of Westminster since 1925; in London. Dean Norris, whose parish church was Westminster Abbey. was an able amateur painter, won honors exhibiting at the Royal Academy. As Dean of York he raised ?50,000 for the restoration of the famed York Minster windows; as Dean of Westminster he raised a scandal by criticizing some of its memorials as "atrocities." Last spring as Dean, he organized the ecclesiastical ceremonies at the coronation of George...
...three famed Soong girls who with their brother have long been the real power behind the Nanking Government. By marrying Ailing ("Pleasant") Soong, smart Dr. Kung became brother-in-law at one crack of China's late, sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, President Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minster T. V. Soong. It was logical in 1933 when T. V. Soong quarreled with Chiang that Dr. Kung should succeed to his job. Regarded then as second-rate compared to brilliant "T. V.", Dr. Kung has since done a whacking good job, currently sits high at China's council tables...
...should not judge their form of government, he added, without considering the character and history of the Japanese people. Since February 11, 660 B.C., the traditional date for the founding of the empire, Japan had been ruled by the Shoguns who controlled the office of Prime Minster, while the Emperor was reduced to a religious figurehead too holy to interfere in lowly matters of government. A revival of learning in the eighteenth century and contact with the western world revealed their true condition to the Japanese people. In 1867 the last Shogun retired and restored the Emperor to his full...
...week's opening had little to do with art, a lot to do with England. Star picture was Frank Ernest Beresford's The Princes' Vigil showing the four sons of the late King George V standing guard around his catafalque in the ancient barn of West minster Hall. The artist was chiefly proud of having sketched it so discreetly on his shirt cuffs that no mourner was offended. The high-collared oldster Frank Owens Salisbury drew the greatest crowds with his official portrait of King George at the Silver Jubilee services in St. Paul's last...