Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgian Cabinets these days are as flimsy as playing-card castles. Month ago King Leopold III accepted Premier Paul Henri Spaak's resignation in the Flemish v. Walloon crisis caused by patriotic War veterans (TIME, Feb. 20). He asked Walloon Catholic Henri Jaspar, who had been Premier from 1926 to 1930, to form a new Cabinet. After two days of fruitless interviews, Jaspar gave up; 36 hours later he died of a stomach ulcer about which he had told no one. Former Cabinet Minister Hubert Pierlot, also a Walloon-Catholic, tried next. He built up a Cabinet of Catholics...
...many little-known facts about William Randolph Hearst's fantastically tangled affairs is that his rival Los Angeles publisher, Harry Chandler of the Times, holds a mortgage on San Simeon. Last month in Los Angeles, rather than embarrass his strapped debtor, Mr. Chandler agreed to extend the mortgage. But it was not Mr. Hearst who made the request. Mr. Hearst was not. in Los Angeles or San Simeon...
...absolute howl on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Wednesday night Band Wagon is "Resident Comedian" Arthur Askey, who is a sort of British Joe Cook. Month or so ago Askey ("Big-Hearted Arthur") and his stooge, Stinker Murdoch, made a batter of mainly carbolic acid and turpentine for some cakes to discourage an unwanted guest. The batter was to be called Askitoff. In mixing it they professed to spill some on the carpet, whereupon the dirt magically disappeared. This was, Askey's cue to crack "Askitoff will take it off." Thereafter Askey began repeating the crack several times...
Particularly steady readers were Mussolini's censors. Last month they decided they had read enough. Omnibus was suppressed, and Editor Longanesi was told by Minister of Press and Propaganda Dino Alfieri that he would not again edit an Italian magazine, thus sparing the good folk of Italy a "debasement of morals" and a waste of "good money...
...going to get married. But she was even in a worse fix than Jenny. If she continued to work as a waitress in the University until the retirement age of 65, contributing faithfully to her Annuity all the time, she would have a retirement income of approximately $14 per month in return for her long and loyal service...