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...general consent 1930 was a gloomy and depressing year in China's political history. . . . The political situation in Colombia has shown no improvement. . . . Burma was affected during the year by a series of local disasters. ..." Lyrically of the Egyptian Agency (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, etc.) it says: "There Pharaoh oppressed and Candace reigned, where Herod wantoned and Moses died, where Muhammad fled and the Mahdi slew. ..." Against these backgrounds are painted the labors of the Holy Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic performers. Trying unsuccessfully to circulate in the Eucharistic Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Best Seller | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...demagogue and the propagandist, then you despair of the ultimate success of widespread ballot governments as such, and you can logically join one of the two world groups, the Soviets, and in somewhat lesser degree the Fascisti, which [attempt] to push the world back ... to the time when the Pharaoh under the strategy of his Prime Minister, Joseph, became an absolute despot. . . . Any talk of loss of liberty through the monopolistic control of the ether ... is too grotesque to need to be given more than a line in an address like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bringing Up Radio | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...Chaim Weizmann, who resigned as President of the World Zionist Organization as an act of protest, keynoted last week at a London Zionist rally: "We have forgotten Pharaoh. We will forget Passfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Passfield On The Run? | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...Biblical times the great Egyptian locust plague was dispersed when Pharaoh persuaded Moses to entreat the Lord of Hosts (Exodus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Plague of Locusts | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...challenged Germany's right to possession, hotly attacked Archaeologist Borchardt. The debate continued until last week, when Egyptian ire was cooled by Ger many's decision to return Queen Nefertiti to her native land, to accept several other rarities in exchange. Nefertiti was the wife of the pharaoh Ikhnaton, whom she espoused in the 14th Century B. C. She bore him no sons: the name of their son-in-law, Tutankhamun, an effete dilettante famed for the extravagant manner of his burial, is known to every bright U. S. schoolchild. More vital is the significance of Ikhnaton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nefertiti | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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