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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During 1938 Dictator Mussolini was only a decidedly junior partner in the firm of Hitler & Mussolini, Inc. His noisy agitation to get Corsica and Tunis from France was rated as a weak bluff whose immediate objectives were no more than cheaper tolls for Italian ships in the Suez Canal and control of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad...
...earliest and greatest of nationalist composers was the late Edvard Hagerup Grieg of Norway, whose best biography to date was published last fortnight.* Born in 1843, while Norway was the weaker partner in a union with Sweden, Composer Grieg spent his student days in Germany, where he was influenced by the music of German Romantics Schumann and Mendelssohn. But all his classical musical education could not drive the smell of Norway's fishing boats and pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world...
Last week the joke turned sour. After her microphone partner and husband, George Burns, pleaded guilty in Manhattan to two Federal indictments for smuggling (TIME, Dec. 19), with the case still pending, he flew to Hollywood to ready their radio program. Last Friday they took to the air. Gracie prattled gaily about her fictional family, but on their criminal careers and residences in jail, as well as on the troubles of her real family, she was mumchance...
Chapter 2. In Manhattan that evening Lawyer Wilbur Love Cummings, a McKesson & Robbins director, was called on the telephone by the company's treasurer, Julian F. Thompson, and told about the receivership. Mr. Cummings thereupon turned amateur detective. He tipped off another director. Partner Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman, Sachs, who is a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, and the Exchange suspended trading in McKesson & Robbins next morning...
...Francisco Chronicle at Manila during the Spanish-American War. Later as Associated Press correspondent during the Russo-Japanese war he scored a notable beat on the siege of Port Arthur. In 1908 he became editor of the Manila Times; in 1913 became the Morgan pressagent, proving indispensable to Partner Thomas W. Lamont in dealings with China, to Partner Henry P. Davison in War-time administration of the Red Cross...