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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jews rejoiced last week as King Carol II cracked down with all his royal might on the anti-Semitic Iron Guard. In particular His Majesty's titian-haired Jewish Pompadour, Mme Magda Lupescu, who had to flee Rumania when anti-Semitism recently burst out, was highly delighted. She was expected soon to return to Bucharest. Meanwhile the King's forces worked day & night last week, arresting anti-Semites and piling them into Rumanian jails. They were accused of being "anti-Rumanian," and Carol II let it be known that the probable form of Government in Rumania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Crackdown | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Books from the libraries of Napoleon, Queen Elizabeth, Madame de Pompadour, and other famous historical figures are included in an exhibit at the Widener Library, showing the development of bookbinding from the time when books first replaced scrolls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 11/13/1937 | See Source »

Chosen to give the lectures was Wisconsin-born Professor Sumner Huber Slichter, who at 45 commands respect from conservatives and liberals alike for his economic sagacity. In muddy shoes and a weather-stained suit, he lectures with his thick white pompadour and craggy nose bent over his desk, seems surprised when he looks up to find students present. Between classes he rushes back to his office to dictate one of the half-dozen reports, books or articles on which he works at once. Over the fireplace in his Morgan Hall office is a gaudy poster proclaiming: "Vote American Labor Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for Employers | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...exalted nobility of the House d'Uzés, espoused the grandson of the greatest and most socially prominent horsewoman in all France, the late Dowager Duchesse d'Uzés (TIME, Feb. 13, 1933). Thereupon Marie Louise set out to become, as it were, the Pompadour of the Proletariat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Frumps & Fashionables | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...blocks of marble were quarried before Miss Frick found one with just the color she wanted for a fountain in the central court. Mrs. Frick was wont to take her ease in a boudoir on the second floor whose panels had once been painted by Boucher for Mme de Pompadour. This had to be dismantled and set up again in what was once the Frick pantry. Engineers were called in to design special glareless lights for each picture. Then finally the ''reasonable regulations" were drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cokeman's Collection | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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