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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virtually certain to win a future Nobel Peace Prize award would be the statesman-conjurer who could persuade both sides of the 23-month-old Spanish Civil War to lay down their arms and peacefully mediate their differences. Last week Great Britain's peace-talking Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, slyly let it be known through "authoritative" sources that he was considering waving a magic wand in that direction...
...Prime Minister Eamon de Valera usually gets his bills passed in Eire's Bail Eireann (lower house) by a small majority. He has often been irked by the fact that his Fianna Fail Party, with 68 votes out of 138, has had to depend upon scattering Labor and Independent votes...
Last week the Dail Eireann in Dublin passed by one vote a bill to create an arbitration board for civil service grievances. Two days later, Prime Minister de Valera surprised friend & foe alike by deciding that the vote showed lack of confidence. He dissolved the Dail Eireann, called for general elections on June...
SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMEN, and MOUSSORGSKY: SONG OF THE FLEA (Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin; Victor). Death two months ago of the greatest singing actor of his generation prompted Victor to re-issue these two lighter items on a memorial disc. Made when Basso Chaliapin was vocally past his prime...
...Prime fact about the used-car business is that a used car is rarely sold at the price that is lettered in soap on the windshield. It is a fact to which A. D. Mitchell, who in the early part of the century had the Helena, Mont, agency for Mitchell cars, never became reconciled. He always refused to sell a Mitchell, new or secondhand, for less than its list price...