Word: n
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room mantel was a stone-hewn hammer & sickle and a portrait of Dictator Stalin. Drinking champagne, but not touching the bountiful caviar and vodka, Mr. Chamberlain stood below a portrait of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff all evening, talked with Comrade Maisky for a half hour, departed at n p.m., whereupon the orchestra began to swing...
...Government even uttered bold words about "resisting to the utmost limit" and sinking or swimming together. But General Casado is an old-line career officer whose political attachments are much nearer to those of Generalissimo Franco than to Loyalist radicals. Moreover, prominent in the new junta is Julián Besteiro, former professor of logic at Madrid University, who months ago in Barcelona urged Loyalist President Manuel Azana to dismiss Dr. Negrin and sue for peace...
Married. Her Serene Highness, Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya (née Audrey Emery), 35, daughter of Cincinnati's multimillionaire Leather Tycoon John Josiah Emery, divorced wife of Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia (co-assassin of Rasputin); and Prince Dimitri ("Mito") Djordjadze, Georgian prince and racing motorist; in Maidstone, England...
...Canada's Parliament authorized $5,000,000 as a dowry for Trans-Canada and agreed, in addition, that the Government would supply fields for the line. It turned over its stock to Government-controlled Canadian National Railways, thus putting Trans-Canada into the arms of C. N. R.'s President Samuel James Hungerford. Sam Hungerford promptly passed Trans-Canada on to a U. S. expert, stubby, taciturn Philip Gustav Johnson. Mr. Johnson had been making trucks in Seattle, Wash, since 1936, after the 1934 Roosevelt airmail purge with its compulsory reorganizations had thrown him out of the presidency...
These papers are worries: the N. Y. Journal-American, Boston American,^ Baltimore News-Post (Sunday American), Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph...