Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having proclaimed the industrial northeast of Spain the independent Republic of Catalonia (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Out of jail popped most of this suppressed Republic's Parliament and met in Barcelona, their capital. In Madrid more or less delirious Spanish mobsters and political ex-convicts paraded around, brandishing plain red flags, singing the Internationale and shouting vaguely "Long Live Russia...
...White House luncheon table one day last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt faced a plain, rather grim little woman who spoke only Russian. Officially the two were equals. The guest was young Paulina Semionova Zhemchuzhina, wife of President Molotov of the Council of People's Commissars of the U. S. S. R., a position technically but by no means actually outranking Joseph Stalin's rank of Secretary-General of the Communist Party. Furthermore, Mme Molotov is herself founder and head of the Soviet cosmetics trust, Tezhe, which last year turned back to the State a profit...
...heavy-stomached Venus lies on a violet couch while a Cupid crowns her with flowers, and a boyish nobleman serenades her with a lute. The paint job is superb, the composition dramatic. Credited with being the first intimations of 18th Century Impressionism are the blue mountains, the wide vague plain in the background...
...only when a President has interested himself in the cause of the plain people, when he is determined to equalize economic opportunities so as to establish a better and happier social order, that the Copperheads, their ancestors and their descendants secrete an extra supply of venom with which to strike down the man who bravely tilts his lance against special privilege and entrenched greed...
Crape-draped, a German special train was sent to the Swiss frontier last week. From the trim little railway station a plain coffin was carried by big-boned Nazis and heaved aboard. Surviving relatives of the corpse were ushered ceremoniously into the train, and with them rode a Guard of Honor as the special set out for their family home in Schwerin. At all large stations the funeral car stopped opposite a band and local Nazis sang the Horst...