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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Sir John Reith, chief of British Broadcasting Corp., decided that he, too, would give the Basque children a treat. To the tent-city near Southampton where 2,000 of the refugees are being housed, he went with a radio van. When news came that Bilbao had fallen (see p. 20), Sir John, against the advice of the camp's Basque officials, decided to broadcast the bad news...
Earl Baldwin, thrice Prime Minister of Britain, weighed down with a crimson robe festooned with miniver, had to go thirsty. He was standing just outside the House of Lords fidgeting with a black cocked hat. waiting to be inducted. A thin stream of dignitaries trickled towards him-Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms; the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England; the Earl of Ancaster, Lord Great Chamberlain; the Earl of Derby and the Marquess of Londonderry, two senior peers. They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor...
From Vienna, Rome. Zurich and Paris five eminent medical specialists hustled last week to the Carpathian Mountain royal palace at Sinaia, Rumania. The patient awaiting them was Dowager Queen Marie, 61. From Vienna hustled famed Hans Eppinger, specialist in heart diseases. From Rome hustled Sir Aldo Castellani. Count of Chisimaio, specialist in yellow fever, dysentery, sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases (TIME. June 8, 1936). Other hustlers included a radiologist and a liver specialist. Soon from Professor Eppinger came the first definite announcement of what was the matter with Queen Marie, reported sick since last March. Marie of Rumania...
Next day the news overshadowed everything else at Vanderbilt's commencement exercises, even an address by the Bank of England's eminent Economist Sir Josiah Stamp, for not only had James Hampton Kirkland been the "Chance" longer than almost anyone could remember but his 44 years at Vanderbilt had spanned one of the most successful university presidencies...
...Died. Sir Robert Laird Borden, 82, longtime (1911-20) Conservative Prime Minister of Canada; of heart failure; in Ottawa...