Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoever wrote the story of Pope Pius' death (TIME, Feb. 20) has fathered a moving piece of writing. If the next Pope is seen to compromise with totalitarianism, the deathbed scene of Pius XI will indeed seem to be taken from a new Götterdämmerung ; starring the vestiges of freedom still clinging to Europe...
...Duke of Berwick & Alba, in taking over the palatial Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square. Britain meanwhile decided to send as her Ambassador to Franco Spain a routine diplomat, 50-year-old Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson, until last week Britain's Ambassador to Iraq and a man who has seen previous service in Madrid as counselor of the British Embassy. Franco promptly accepted...
Last week the three agents and the prosecutor were sent to jail themselves for from five to ten years. The released children were asked whether they even knew what Fascism was. "We have seen Fascists in the movies," they confessed. "They go about in white caps...
...hours, no sign from the conclave. Then, at noon, the first sfumata-a curl of smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney -was seen. By the black smoke the watchers knew that no Pope had been elected during the two morning ballots...
Many feel also that the new line will fail because the bands involved are at or past their peak, and all new material has been pretty well sewed up by Decca and the rejuvenated Columbia Broadcasting Co.-Brunswick outfit. Signs of the intense competition brewing can be seen in the plans of the latter to keep its thirty-five cent Vocalion line, drop the price of Brunswick labels to fifty cents, and put the Columbia classical series out at seventy-five cents. Looks as though the record public is going to be able to just sit around and have better...