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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the ceremony was hailed as "revolutionary," though Brahman sticklers feel themselves polluted should the shadow of an Untouchable fall across their food, marriages between the three upper classes are not unknown, orthodox Hindus being less scandalized when the bride is of the higher caste as was the case last week...
...torpedoed troop ship Tyndarius. They sang it after the Armistice when they marched across the bridge into Cologne. In London the massed bands of the Guards play it even now when Britain's notables gather on the Mall to do honor to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...first Presidential campaign), Life of Jefferson Davis, Statesmen of the Old South, Expansion and Conflict, The Cotton Kingdom. He was a strong and early champion of the idea that German imperialism cannot be wholly blamed for the War. Though a Democrat, the new Ambassador is a political unknown holding his first public office. As a college professor he was gleefully welcomed into the Roosevelt "Brain Trust." A relatively poor man, he hopes to get along in Berlin on his $17,500 salary. "After all," said he, "the days of show are over." Last week President Roosevelt also made the following...
France took no official notice, but in Paris a file of wounded veterans clumped up the Champs Elysees to dip their flags over the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in honor of their comrades who died during the Ruhr occupation. A third demonstration took place two days earlier when a crowd of nearly 1,000 Jews & Communists rioted at a Brooklyn quayside, waiting to boo Hans Weidemann and Gotthold Schneider, Hitler's not particularly welcome envoys to the Chicago World's Fair. Dozens of heads were cracked, 13 rioters arrested...
...concentrated, in his French Renaissance chateau behind a loft. fence, upon the finest collection of modern art in the U. S. He never lends pictures for outside exhibition, sometimes handpicks a few visitors to look at them. His guards manhandle enterprising reporters. Occasionally he buys a painting by an unknown painter. The canvas disappears behind Dr. Barnes's fence, but the painter is made. As a judge of art, Dr. Barnes is brusque but no booby...