Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, 54, beetle-browned Hungarian Jewess, indefatigable publicist, onetime Hungarian Minister to Switzerland, has been trying for some time to become a U. S. citizen. Because she, in 1915, helped persuade Henry Ford to outfit and command his famed "Peace Ship," she was subjected to specially alert questioning by a Chicago naturalization board last summer (TIME, July 11). When she told the board she was an atheist and that she would not personally bear arms for the U.S. because " I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States," the board refused her citizenship...
...concert to be given by Mme. Lillian Evanti in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall will take place October 27, at 8.15 o'clock, instead of October 28, as erroneously announced in yesterday's CRIMSON...
Reported Married. Mme. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb., 1912). "Father of the Chinese Revolution," founder of the Cantonese Government (1917); to Eugene Chen, onetime (1926-27) Foreign Minister of the Canton Nationalist Government. His first wife was of Negro descent...
...Thursday, October 27, under the auspices of the Division of Music and Fine Arts, Mme. Lillian Evanti, lyric coloratura soprano, will give a concert in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall for the benefit of the Cambridge Chapter of the MacDowell Colony League...
...Merry del Val,* Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Chamberlain to King Alfonso of Spain, irate, took up his pen, wrote to the Sphere, London illustrated weekly, denied that Spain is decadent; answered an "arrant tissue of airy inventions" made previously in that periodical by one Mme. Bordeux on behalf of Vincente Blasco Ibanez, "notorious" Spanish novelist...