Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congo & Security. A visit of state is ipso facto not a business visit, but Leopold III is expected to busy himself finding out what the British Government mean by a startling decision they took last week. This was to send to visit Adolf Hitler this week the notably pro-German Viscount Halifax, whose Cabinet post is Lord President of the Council. With all Europe assuming that Halifax & Hitler will talk over Germany's demands for colonial territory; her aspirations in Austria and Czechoslovakia; and her intentions toward Soviet Russia, now that Germany, Italy and Japan have made an anti...
...partly by preparing for his father a series of comparative reports on colonial administration in the Belgian Congo, British India, The Netherlands Indies, the Philippines and French Indo-China. It was not simply that Leopold and Astrid "inspected" or showed "interest" on their travels. The Crown Prince everywhere took copious notes of the replies made to his questions, collected and studied reports as he went along, and on returning to Brussels closeted himself for weeks, writing up his own reports to King Albert and preparing his speeches to the Senate. As an instance, His Royal Highness drew the Senate...
...school graduate and a full-fledged professional, U. S. symphony orchestras were packed with Europeans. Patriotic Teacher Robinson hastened to the late Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony orchestra that would train and place promising graduate students. Mrs. Harriman promptly took him up, gave him full charge of the musical end, and rounded up for her management boards as imposing a collection of Social Register names as ever decorated the Metropolitan Opera lists. In 1930 Mrs. Harriman dropped put (reason: Depression) and the association was reorganized under the presidency...
...hand of Shakespeare, but the voice of someone more like Leftist Playwright Clifford Odets. Manhattan play-goers took the play's smooth unmetered flow, its indubitable 1937 flavor, with mingled delight and disbelief. The delight was for a first-rate show that, played straight ahead with no break, kept them on the edges of their seats for an hour and forty minutes. The disbelief arose from the snobbish, traditional feeling that Shakespeare must be dressed up fit to kill, cannot possibly be made presentable on the bare boards he wrote...
...showed greater mastery of his art. Leaving London to escape the plague, he had been recalled by the authorities two weeks before. At ten in the morning of May 30. with two government agents and a London thief, the prominent young playwright visited Dame Eleanor Bull's tavern, took a private room, ate dinner, walked in a private garden with his strange companions...