Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Large building models, elaborate city maps, complicated street plans, fill a few small rooms of Berlin's Reich Chancellery. In these rooms a young architect-engineer and a middle-aged ruler frequently stay up until 4 a. m. discussing changes, poring over designs. The two conferees are 33-year-old Professor Albert Speer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler. They determine in these all-night conferences the details of mystic, dreamy Adolf Hitler's pet building project-the reconstruction of Berlin, the remaking of a not-too-beautiful city into a worthy, magnificent capital of Greater Germany...
King Sisowath Monivong, 59-year-old ruler of the ancient protectorate of Cambodia in French Indo-China, dismissed approximately 100 of his 200 wives. Reason: economy. The dismissed ladies will keep themselves occupied with classical dancing, for which they are famed...
...country is more anxious to demonstrate its freedom than Iran, no ruler anywhere is more conscious of his dignity, more jealous of his sovereignty, than His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah-in-Shah ("King of Kings") of Iran...
...meantime Spencer Hart, Grand Exalted Ruler of 530,000 Elks, condemned the University's action in appointing Granville Hicks as "against all the principles of Americanism...
WINGED PHARAOH-Joan Grant-Harper ($2.50). Poetic first-person narrative about a co-ruler and priestess during Egypt's First Dynasty, described as a Golden Age of justice and the arts, in which the instructions in the Book of the Dead are carried out as casually as cooking recipes...