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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King-George VI will receive an honorary LL.D. from Brown University when he and Queen Elizabeth visit Providence on the trip to America this June, the Brown "Herald" announced with modest reticence recently. President Wriston said that the gesture would help to "cement Angle-American relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KING GEORGE TO GET DEGREE | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

Their Majesties are the first reigning British monarchs to visit the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KING GEORGE TO GET DEGREE | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

...visit to Manhattan, blonde British Cinemactress Binnie Barnes babbled: "I don't think sex comes from the body. . . . I have been told I am a sexy person. ... I represent, I believe, the modern-day siren. A few years ago it was Mae West. It is no longer Mae West. Tell me, would you like to go out with Mae West or would you prefer to go out with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...American-born Duchess, the Duke of Windsor now calls a dinner jacket a "tux," a wireless a "radio," occasionally emits the word "cute." But he still says "we" when he means himself, still insists that all their friends refer to his wife as "Her Royal Highness." (Their proposed visit to England in March has been indefinitely postponed because of the dispute over her title.) The Duchess he addresses as "My Darling," sometimes "Sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Shortly before she left Germany, she received a visit from two Hitler Youths, ardent Nazis of the year before. They said they wanted to ski over into Czechoslovakia. Pumped for their reason, 16-year-old Otto said: "I'll now quote Herr Abraham Lincoln: 'You can fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murmurous Germany | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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