Word: remains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disgrace, since everyone knows whose fault it is that Soviet railways remain in an appalling mess, Comrade Andreyev was honored by being appointed one of the four potent secretaries of the Communist Party Central Committee. Into the curiously bloody and repugnant job of Commissar of Railways, Dictator Stalin last week put big. iron-nerved Comrade Lazar Kaganovich who has just built the first eight miles of Moscow's projected 50-mile subway...
...under my name!" Excerpts from what is perhaps history's most urbane and informative abdication: "When Phya Bahol and his associates seized power by military force on June 24, 1932, they invited me to remain as a constitutional king. I accepted the invitation on the understanding that Bahol and his associates would establish a constitution on the same lines as in all other countries with constitutional governments of that kind so the people would have a right to have a voice in administration and in matters of policy affecting the welfare of the people...
From the left, Professor Jesse Homer Newlon of Teachers' College threw the issue to the convention: "We cannot and we will not remain neutral in the struggle of social forces going on in this country...
...sitting in the audience at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Composer Deems Taylor was able to witness both the operatic début of his 8-year-old daughter Joan and the establishment of an endurance record by his Peter Ibbetson, first U. S. opera to remain in the Metropolitan's repertoire for four years. Daughter Joan, self-assured, mimed the part of Mimsey Seraskier, the child of groping Peter's dreams. Backstage she spent most of her time studying school homework...
...place is a story more suited to the specialized talents of Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery. Most unfortunate is the demise of the character Fedyak, that charming cosmopolitan and Bohemian, as played by Edward Arnold, Still, it must be said that snatches of Behrman's intelligent wit remain in the dialogue. But why, oh, why, wasn't Ina Claire contracted by MGM to speak them...