Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: 1 have just read with interest, the very excellent description of the funeral of the late King Albert of Belgium, in your issue of March 5. Mentioning the dignitaries present, you say: 'All in overcoats, a great throng followed on foot. Except for the towering bearskin of Britain's Edward of Wales, there was little to distinguish them." Can TIME possibly have erred regarding this unique head-dress?. . . DOUGLAS M. STEEL Petersburg...
Jews felt that their boycott was indeed deadly when they read last week Germany's export and import totals for February. In February, 1933. Germany had had a favorable trade balance of about 30,000.000 marks. Last month it had an unfavorable trade balance of 34.600.000 marks. Examined more closely, however, the figures changed color completely. Reason for the deficit was a 10% decline in German export prices. Actually, figured in quantities, German exports for February, 1934 were well above those for February, 1933, before the boycott began. Furthermore, the high import total was explained by the fact that...
...other big parts. She was singing Micaela in Carmen one night while the Vienna Opera director sat in the audience. He had come to find a new tenor but next day the tenor was forgotten and Lehmann was shakily signing a contract which she never stopped to read...
...sons resemble their father. Anemic Ralph resigned from the World in 1930, a year before it was sold; he wears thick glasses. Herbert, youngest son, wore glasses at 19. Joseph Jr. has had poor eyesight for years. Like his father, he has a staff of secretaries to read his paper aloud to him, keep him informed...
...city. Like other Manhattan banks it occasionally moved out to Greenwich Village in the country during periodic yellow fever plagues. It weathered panic after panic, including that of 1857 when Harper's Weekly wrote: "Not for many years - not in the lifetime of most men who read this paper - has there been so much grave and deep apprehension. ... Of our troubles no man can see the end." Last week this venerable institution celebrated its sesquicentennial. Each & every employe got half a month's salary as a bonus. A privately printed history of its first 150 years was written...