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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every body joined - 'Za-Za!' I talked a good deal to the Prince that evening, telling him all sorts of jokes, which he enjoyed very much. ... To think that there was the future King of England, sitting in the midst of people who have come from humble origin, even though they have attained the highest in their profession!" Next day, wrote Violinist Elman, he met the Prince in a cafe, was asked to join him. "The Prince was very amusing . . . trying very hard to persuade me to drink. . . . Finally he said, 'It is very stupid for people...
...conduct of the Japanese soldiers is the more unpardonable, as Japan is a co-signatory of the Kellogg Anti-War Pact. The Pact provides in unmistakable terms: "The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means." The actions of the Japanese military officers, however, are in such flat contradiction with the terms of the Pact that they virtually put aside the solemn renunciation of war to facilitate their imperialistic aggrandizement...
...origin and development of the American political and constitutional
...supervision of Benito Mussolini, he was empowered to select a new director. He picked Signorina Colombo. The Press raged. People held mass-meetings. A woman? It was unthinkable. But someone sagely pointed out that Miss Colombo's most useful qualities?energy, firmness, business sense?seemed to be Teutonic in origin, were not likely to be imitated by Italian ladies. This mollified a few critics...
...Origin of the Horrible Hemingways was the revival in Los Angeles of several old-time melodramas in which, it was noticed, most of the villains were named Hemingway. The charter members and founders were three disgustingly fresh young men who hate everyone, who trip up old ladies on stairs, wrest candy from children, push invalids down hills in wheel chairs and take away cripples' crutches. Most Horrible (official title) is Alan Brown, sophomore at Pomona College. The other two: Robert Forbes, sophomore at Stanford; Parley Johnson, student at Harvard School, Los Angeles...