Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warmly clad Soviet legislators jounced into Moscow last week beaming and expectant. To them Joseph Stalin is a real Santa Claus. Once every few years-they get free rides to Moscow and lavish entertainment at the State's expense. Two thousand strong, they sit in the onetime Throne Room of Tsar Nicholas II and are known as the All-Union Congress of Soviets. The Congress is content that its members do not rule Russia but merely ratify the acts of the Stalin dictature. Hand-picked by Communist agents in the provinces for this duty, the Congressmen and Congresswomen...
...motion picture, directed by Roger Richebe and with dialogue by Marcel Pagnol, is based on the novel "Les Demi Soide" by Georges Eparbes and deals with the efforts of the old soldiers of Napoleon to place L'Aiglon, Napoleon's son, on the throne of France. The cast includes Pierre Renoir as Colonel de Mentander. Constant Remy as Capitaine Deguereau. Debucourt as Lieutenant de Breuilly, and Annie Ducaux as Lise...
...Speech, as everyone knows, is written by the Premier. What followed was a burst of demagogery from the Throne- i. e. from hard-pressed Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is trying to escape the fate of Herbert Hoover by a lightning change from his accustomed conservatism to Roosevelt newdealism (TIME...
...have been witness of grave defects and abuses in the capitalist system," continued the Speech from the Throne. "New conditions prevail. These require modifications in the capitalist system to enable that system more effectively to serve the people. Reform measures will therefore be submitted to you as part of a comprehensive plan designed to remedy the social and economic injustices now prevailing, and to ensure to all classes and to all parts of the country a greater degree of equality in the distribution of the benefits of the capitalist system. Upon this plan you have made a beginning...
Died. Grand Duchess Alice of Tuscany, 85, widow of Grand Duke Ferdinand IV who lost his throne in 1860, mother of Archduke Leopold Ferdinand who went into trade, became famed as "Leopold the Greengrocer"; in Salzburg, Austria. In reduced circumstances, she had lately turned one of her villas into a rooming house...