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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands last year set a precedent by personally preannouncing the birth of her daughter over the radio (TIME, June 28, 1937). Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger last week pre-announced on her "Homemaker" page in her husband's Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "PRELUDE TO THE MARCH ARRIVAL OF A NEW CITIZEN. . . . My husband, my mother and I ... made plans for the looked-forward-to arrival of my mother's newest grandchild. The biggest question was, could mother arrange to be on the spot to help usher into the world a new citizen for Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Chores & Plans | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Britain, too, was busy courting the dictator powers, to the approval of U. S. Ambassador Kennedy. It was significant that King George & Queen Elizabeth lunched the Italian Crown Princess at Buckingham Palace last week-something which would have been unthinkable before the Big Four got together at Munich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: State-of-the-World | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Last week the young monarch was in Paris, there attended the dedication of a monument to his father, the late King Albert. Surprised were France's President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Daladier and Leopold's sister, the Crown Princess of Italy, when the King brushed aside the conventional speech of thanks, launched into an impassioned plea for his ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Every Man His Duty | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...When Princess Radziwill heard that Daniele Varè was hesitating between a musical and a diplomatic career, she told him: "There is a new character for you to create. The Laughing Diplomat." This was at the Italian embassy in Berlin, in 1900, when Varè was 20. Young Varè took her at her word, laughed genially through his years of service in the Italian consulate in Vienna, as first secretary of the legation in Peking, in the foreign office in Rome, as delegate to the League of Nations, at the San Remo conference, in London, Luxemburg, Copenhagen, Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Funny? | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...bestowed his ardors on a Mrs. Jordan, an actress, to whom he was faithful for many years and who bore him twelve children. At Teddington, not far from London, he used for his extraordinary menage a charming and spacious 18th Century brick palace. When the death of his niece, Princess Charlotte, moved him up to second place as a regal candidate, he kicked Mrs. Jordan out. After ascending the throne, he lived in the Teddington palace with his queen, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fifth Director | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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