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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strengthening its army, as Premier before the War, Barthou was called "the Savior of France." After the War he dropped out of sight. Last winter, to its surprise, France found that it had obtained for its Cabinet of National Union not merely a name of greatest prestige, but its most active Foreign Minister in years...
...great state review. So great was the stake in the game he was about to play that at the last minute, Foreign Minister Barthou himself decided to run down to Marseilles. He was waiting at the dock one afternoon early this week when the Jugoslavian warship hove in sight...
...Without denying woman any of the rights and privileges she has . . . acquired, we must not lose sight of the fact that woman's primary role is ... the rearing of children. . . . No triumph in any other field of endeavor could excuse their neglecting...
...aristocrat. When they first met, he was a poverty-laden unknown of 26, she a settled matron of 31, with three children, married to a Nottingham University professor. Lawrence went to tea, to call on the professor. He met Frieda instead, and they fell in love almost at first sight. Frieda tried to have an affair with him, but he insisted on all or nothing; finally she left her husband and children, went to Germany with Lawrence. Her family were horror-struck but she stuck to her choice. Eventually her husband gave her a divorce and she and Lawrence were...
...Chinese laundryman named Sam Sing Tsong, Anna May Wong's real name is Wong Liu Tsong (Frosted Yellow Willows). She grew up on Flower Street in Los Angeles' chop-suey section, attended Los Angeles Central High School. Her ambition to become an actress sprouted when she caught sight of the late Alma Rubens in an elevator. Sam Sing Tsong objected when his daughter got extra jobs on location scenes in Chinatown. Was it not true that every time a picture is taken, its subject loses part of his soul? Nonetheless, Anna May Wong carried a tea tray...