Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard the false reports that Hess [Deputy Nazi Party -With Nazi Protector Baron Xeurath Leader Rudolf Hess] had been killed," said Herr Strasser on arrival in P'aris. The fact that no Nazi bigwig was killed in the explosion convinced him, he said, that the Nazis themselves had set the bomb to increase the Fiihrer's popularity, and he cracked with a grin: "The beer hall, four weeks before, had been insured by a Swiss company...
From Peking (Japanese) and Hong Kong (neutral) came reports that last month Communist Generalissimo Mao Tse-tung charged the central authorities with failing to set up democratic government in China, with having arrested a Communist officer without provocation, with having actually fought a three-day battle against the Communists when the Japanese were less than 100 miles away...
...heavy machine guns, almost no ammunition. The Government says: Why train and arm a Communist Army just to have it turn on us? Generalissimo Chiang has long been a hater of Communists; nor do the Communist leaders, Mao, Chu and Chou Enlai, on all of whose heads he once set a price, trust him. This week, in a peculiarly Chinese maneuver, the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee summoned Generalissimo Chiang as President of the Executive Yuan (Premier) again, reducing Premier H. H. Kung to vice president. Then it issued a four-point manifesto, the most emphatic point of which...
Sarah Lawrence College was released three years ago from the protective custody of Vassar's President Henry Noble McCracken (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), its eight-year-old feet set firmly on the path of progressive education. Ever since then, the college has wanted to record in film a "sustained visual explanation" of itself. Last week the wish was fact...
When he was a little boy in Glasgow 30 years ago William Primrose loved to saw away at an old viola that was around the house. His father, who was himself a disappointed viola player, strongly objected, set little William to practicing the violin instead. But William never forgot the charms of the forbidden viola. Years later, in Brussels, when his teacher, the late great violinist and tosspot Eugene YsaŸe, told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life. In 1937, when NBC officials were recruiting their new NBC Symphony, they heard...