Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NORMAN T. LYON...
...United States Neutrality Act comes from the difficulty of deciding what is a war and what is not one. To the liberals who felt that after the bombing of Almeria President Roosevelt should have invoked the Act against Germany the news from Washington that Secretary Hull and Norman Davis dissuaded the executive from this course shows the extreme caution of the State Department...
...Socialist Norman Thomas, visiting Valencia, heard only one shot fired during several hours at the Teruel front trenches. But off the sea just before one dawn came a droning V of Rightist planes. Ninety bombs whistled down in Valencia's worst air raid to date. At least 200 people were killed, about 50 buildings destroyed. Uninjured but considerably ruffled, Socialist Thomas cried: "It was diabolical. I shall take a first-hand report of this to President Roosevelt." Lucky was the little British freighter Pinzon, at anchor in Valencia harbor. A bomb dropped full on her bridge but failed...
...last week's Marouf Tenor Chamlee showed the agreeable voice and the discreet musicianship people expect of him. Norman Cordon was comical as the suspicious, crack-voiced vizier. Pretty Nancy McCord, who used to sing in Broadway shows, made her Metropolitan debut as Princess Saamcheddine. She hit the proper notes, but acted woodenly and could not hide the fact that she has a pale, uninteresting voice. Listeners felt that the Metropolitan's Marouf was well worth repeating, but could not come up to last season's smash hit in English, The Bartered Bride...
...Canterbury? Roman Canterbury, near the seacoast of Kent, was a convenient stopping place for travelers to Britain. Here in 597 A.D. came that ardent Benedictine, St. Augustine, a missionary from Rome, to found a monastery and become the first Archbishop of Canterbury, even before the Norman Conquest. Ever since then Canterbury's archbishops have been England's primates, by simple priority. The archbishopric of York, far to England's north, was established two centuries later, not to challenge the authority of Canterbury but purely for administrative reasons...