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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign policy to date and won it, 345-to-138, after plainly intimating to the House that what must now be expected is an almost unlimited extension of Japanese influence in East Asia and of German influence in East Europe. The shades of British Imperialists from Good Queen Bess to Rudyard Kipling must have paled perceptively. But an optimist to pessimists, and others, Neville Chamberlain said: "China cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital, and the fact that so much capital is being destroyed during the war means that even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Business of Government | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...London's famed Madame Tussaud's all the great characters of history are exhibited in wax. On Broadway this season much the same thing is being done in grease paint. Already Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James, Pieter Stuyvesant, Gilbert & Sullivan, Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde have been on view;* this week brings Danton and Robespierre; the next few weeks promise Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, General Howe, Queen Elizabeth, Madame Jumel, Lord Byron, Herod and Harriet Beecher Stowe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Past & Present | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...Queen Victoria and Wilde have appeared twice: in the plays bearing their names, and together in Knights of Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Past & Present | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...genteel Philadelphia Forum for sponsoring the Lunt-Fontanne Amphitryon 38. Calling the show a "demoralizing influence," Censor Woodward said he objected not only as a Forum subscriber but also as "a subscriber to the Anti-Venereal Disease Society." Momentarily clutching the ropes, the Forum rallied, quoted Actor Lunt that "Queen Mary came to the play in London, and Queen Mary doesn't go to plays that are immoral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Show Business: Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...seized power in Germany, wrote an anti-fascist novel, Days of Wrath, has been roundly denounced by Trotsky as a Stalinist agent. Learning to fly in 1934, he flew with his instructor over the Arabian Desert, discovered a ruined city which he said was the ancient home of the Queen of Sheba, but about which experts were noncommittal. A natural scholar, Malraux knows Spanish, English, German, Italian, Russian, as well as Sanskrit, Chinese and minor Oriental tongues, was working on a big book of esthetic theory, The Psychology of Art, when the Spanish Civil War broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: News from Spain | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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