Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Cabinet, Paul Reynaud and Georges Mandel, were for immediate resumption of those cordial French relations with Joseph Stalin personally which were never so close as when the Premier of France was Conservative Pierre Laval, one of the few foreign statesmen ever entertained by the Kremlin Dictator. With a view to aiding France to gain strength as fast as possible in rivalry with Italy and Germany, the assistance of the World's No. 1 Communist is again wanted by Paris...
British owners of the $400,000,000 oil properties recently expropriated by the Mexican Government. President Roosevelt has made clear that under his good neighbor policy Mexico need not pay anything like as much as $400,000,000 in compensation, but the British Government take a much sterner view, and Mexico needs to borrow heavily to finance Government operation of her oil lands. Best argument to use on prospective lenders is evidence of a desire to pay and thus last week Señora Cárdenas and other politicos' wives donated table silver and trinkets (see cut). Wealthy...
...lately than the perfections of Japanese art (see p. 14). But one day fortnight ago a demonstration of brush drawing by a 53-year-old Japanese artist drew the unprecedented number of 1.900 visitors to the old Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento. Calif., and his atmospheric, formalized landscapes, on view last week, made critics remember him as one of the most accomplished artists in the West...
...anyone doubted the President's view, he had only to consider: 1) the preliminary reports on gross revenues of 89 Class I roads in March, which showed a drop of 25.8% from March 1937, and 2) last week's action of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Having lost $4,000,000 in the first two months of 1938, against a profit of $468,000 for the same period in 1937, the Santa Fe announced it would defer payment of 2% interest on its 4% adjustment mortgage bonds of 1995. This was no default because the interest...
...families produce one unhappy intermarriage, one well-known liberal, one feminist, one famous artist, one War victim, one monk. The third generation turns out a talented left-wing artist, an illegitimate-born Communist, an avowed Fascist. Despite this disturbing picture of British family history, Author Bentley takes a calm view of the future: If half of the preceding generation muddled through, reasons one of her characters, why fear the fate of the next...