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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role suits the Squire of Hyde Park better than that of well-born man-of-the-world hobnobbing with distinguished visitors. He drove down to the Poughkeepsie lumber yard where the Potomac docks when it is there, got out of his car to handshake handsome Crown Prince Olav & Crown Princess Martha of Norway. Mr. Roosevelt, though fluent in French, speaks no Scandinavian tongues, but he did not need to. The royal Norwegians speak Mayfair English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mankind Invited | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Birthdays. Shirley Temple, her tenth, in Hollywood; Princess Elizabeth, her 13th, in London; Adolf Hitler, his soth, in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood went H. R. H. Sylvia, white-skinned Ranee of Sarawak,* for a public reconciliation with her cinemastruck daughter, Mrs. Bob Gregory ("Princess Baba" of Sarawak), who married a wrestler against her mother's wishes. To newsmen the Ranee complained: "My daughter is not a princess and never was a princess!" Added pretty Mrs. Gregory: "And my name was never Princess Baba either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Visitors to San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair: Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and beauteous Crown Princess Ingrid, who are making a 34-day goodwill tour of the U. S. Same weekend, his "farewell tour" almost completed, appeared Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

While her papa, Egypt's King Farouk, attended the exhumation of one of his royal predecessors, Princess Ferial (age four months) faced the world in her first picture. Egypt's adoring fellaheen fondly assured one another that the picture bore a strong resemblance to their late princess, Cleopatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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