Word: sion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight to acquaint their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight of an umpire with a red flag from two belligerent cows, the capture of Hill 300 by the 27th Divi sion's swift advance and its subsequent loss because of: i) failure of communica tions, 2) an attack of real ptomaine poisoning which completely incapacitated two batteries...
...Kings, who in 1,000 years made France!" is the stirring battle cry of the stanch French Royalist Party which sticks through thick & thin to "King Jean III," the handsomely bearded Orleans pretender living near Brussels in undisputed posses sion of his lesser title, Monseigneur le Duc de Guise (TIME...
...passed a law declaring the air waves Government property. Wave lengths are merely "loaned" broadcasters for six-month periods. On the grounds that stations do not serve "public interest, convenience and necessity," the Radio Commission may at any time refuse to renew a license. Last week the Commis sion received unfavorable renewal reports on three experimental stations of Henry Ford, no friend of the New Deal. Result, claimed the Herald Tribune, was that radio served "as handmaiden and drummer boy to whatever Administration happens to be in power...
Foreign observers were surprised that French comment was as moderate as it was. No one suggested re-entering the Ruhr. Newspapers argued not for the money but for the principle of the thing. A reason for this: The average Frenchman is far more interested in the world Depres sion, which affects him actually, than in Reparations which he only reads about. French unemployment increased by 16,000 in the past week alone. Luxury trades are prostrate; the mining industry is on part time. L'Oetivre (Radical Paris daily) put the matter bluntly with its headline: NOT ONE PFENNIG...
...different artists?last weel Soprano Lily Pons.) But Radio advertisers still stop short of chamber music?music in its purest form. The radio series of chamber musicales which started last week required the philanthropy of Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the endowment she gave in 1925 to the Music Divi sion of the Library of Congress. The Rotl String Quartet from Budapest played the first program. Scheduled for the ten following Monday afternoons: The Barren Ensemble of Wind Instruments, the Salzedo Harp Ensemble, the Gordon String Quartet, the Compinsky Trio, the Musica Art String Quartet, the Elshuco Trio, the Kroll String...