Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the President back in Washington, the business of the U. S. once more got under way with a Cabinet meeting. Governor Brann of Maine, who threatened to quit the Democratic ticket, had to be seen and conciliated. General Johnson ("stage money") Hagood had to be seen and given command of the Sixth Corps Area at Chicago in place of the Texas command from which he was ousted two months...
...evening last week William Edgar Borah stood on the platform in the "million-dollar ballroom" of the Eagles Lodge in Milwaukee with 1.200 Wisconsin voters ranged on chairs before him. From their standpoint the occasion was significant because the Idaho Senator was the one candidate for President who had seen fit to show himself in the flesh in their State. From his standpoint the occasion meant: 1) an expenditure of about $10, the cost of a round-trip ticket from Chicago and a night's lodging at Milwaukee's Republican Hotel; 2) a one-night campaign to capture...
...ller last week. Bishop Müller was commissioned three years ago to Nazify all Protestant Christianity. So bullheaded were his tactics on behalf of his strange brand of Christianity that he promptly aroused among outraged churchmen the first effective opposition to the Nazi regime that Germany has yet seen (TIME, June 12, 1933 et seq.). Nazi strategists became alarmed. Reichsbischof Müller was robbed of all authority, even deprived of his private automobile. Stubbornly he clung to his title, rode on streetcars. Last week in an elaborate limited edition he published his own version of the Gospel according...
...Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. He taught his followers intricate dances for which he composed 5,000 pieces of music. He enjoyed mirth, appeared to enjoy heroic rages, advocated intense awareness of every muscular function. Six years ago Gurdjieff arrived in Manhattan, was often to be seen in Childs' restaurants drinking coffee and working over a monumental book, Tales Told by Beelzebub to His Grandson (TIME, March...
...when the company toured 20,000 miles, surprised everyone by grossing $1,000,000. This season more ground was covered, with earnings even greater. The Ballet danced with the leading symphony orchestras in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit. It played to capacity audiences in cities which had never seen a ballet. There were sold-out houses in Little Rock, Ark., El Paso, Tex., Portland, Me. In Brockton, Mass., a leading citizen was impressed because the ballet's appearance there was on of the rare occasions when he had known his townsfolk to turn out in formal evening clothes...