Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shortly after TIME, July 24 (with Countess Ciano on the cover) appeared, all Italian newsstands were forbidden to display foreign publications so that they could be seen by the public...
...Jubilee race meeting, Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti of New York last week gave assurance that nothing of the sort would be allowed; in Governor Herbert Lehman's absence on vacation, his office would expect the law to be enforced. As in years gone by, Saratoga's gambling public was thus obliged to bank its own games in its own parlors, or travel by night to hideouts...
Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which traditionally covers the site of Christ's entombment, is shared by Franciscans, Copts, Abyssinians, Armenians, Orthodox Greeks, Syrians. The church is in danger of collapse, has been closed to the public pending $750,000 worth of repairs. The Franciscans, however, have repaired or rebuilt such shrines as the Basilica of the Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor, the Sanctuary in Aim Karem (birthplace of St. John the Baptist). Chief holy place not under partial or complete Christian control is Jerusalem's Room of the Last Supper, owned by an Arab family...
...young Princess of Wales during George I's reign, Caroline was the first Hanoverian to become popular in England. She quickly realized what her new subjects wanted, and gave it to them. None of her successors has more gracefully gone the approved rounds of gardening, child-rearing, churchgoing, public appearances, patronage of the industries and arts. "This Princess," wrote the observant Voltaire, "was born to encourage...
...Petersburg, Fla., two ladies protested to the city manager because the drakes on Mirror Lake outnumbered the ducks, 5 to 1. Reported Public Works Head Frank Lee, to whom the complaint was referred: "I doubt whether we will be able to reason with the drakes and induce them to move elsewhere. As far as I have been able to determine, we have received no complaints from the female ducks...