Word: trumps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saionji's Ace. Against such a dire emergency, Prince Saionji has for many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History...
Before they could say "One No Trump," the Frenchmen were shot up to a large chamber in Essex House which was arranged as if for bearbaiting. There, in two pits with 250 kibitzers mounted in circles behind them, the Frenchmen were told that they would begin play this week for THE CONTRACT BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. In an adjoining room, 800 more spectators will observe the play on an electric board. "What is this," asked Baron Robert de Nexon, team captain, "a circus?" The French nobleman who manages Pierre Wertheimer's famed racing stud is not unsophisticated...
Drawback to Chicago's present arrangement is the short (five-week) season which makes it impossible to maintain a creditable resident company. Makeshift is to pay for a few big names to bolster up a list of mediocres. For his trump cards this season Longone will present Lehmann in Der Rosenkavalier, Prague's Mila Kocava in her U. S. debut, pretty Helen Jepson as the profligate Thais, the U. S. premiere of Respighi's La Fiamma, the world premiere of Ethel Leginska's Gale with John Charles Thomas singing and the bushy-haired composer conducting...
...Cord Corp., is reported to be planning a new line but the exhibits last week were the famed custom models, some with exposed exhausts, all priced above $13,500. Reaching down below the $1,000 class were Auburns, not much changed from last year. But Auburn's trump was the new front-wheel drive Cord, the only completely new car at the Show...
...only the measures for unemployment insurance, utility holding companies, and that particular bone of contention, the Wagner labor-disputes bill, were allowed to drop by the wayside, the Association of Manufacturers has summoned up a luxurious array of statistics. Billens are oast about like rios at a wedding. The trump card is twenty billion dollars, which we are told, would be thrown into factory expension at the drop of a hat. The hat is the Roosevelt social reform program. But if Frank Lloyd Wright is to be believed when he says that there is nothing so timid as a million...