Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Katherine and Murry had a hard time supporting themselves, let alone Rhythm, but they struggled along somehow, cheated by landlords, threatened with bankruptcy proceedings by printers. Says Murry: "By reason of their unremitting vicissitudes, the Murry-Mansfields were in danger of becoming a standing joke." An added complication was their...
Dropping back mile after mile before the relentless Italian advance, Haile Selassie took refuge for a day or two at Magdala, burned by the British in 1868, scene of the suicide of the Emperor's predecessor, Theodore. Magdala's peasants were heartily sick of the war. Many a...
Good-by Calls. Back in Addis Ababa last week, with his Empire on its last legs, Haile Selassie drove quietly to the French Legation beyond the race track. There he explained to French Minister Paul Bodard that he was morally bound to keep on fighting, but that with Italy'...
Before the ornate altar of a Buddhist temple in a Tacoma side street, Julius Goldwater, one of the 50 white Buddhist priests in the U. S., intoned: "This candi date desires ordination." Red-robed Bishop Kenju Masuyama, head of all Buddhist temples in North America, placed a kesa (stole) around...
Died, Jonkheer Dr. C. J. M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck, 62, president of the Tweede Kamer, lower house of The Netherlands Parliament, thrice Premier; at Vorden, in the Province of Gelderland. Reproached in 1919 for affording ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II & son refuge in the country, he blurted: "To put it bluntly...