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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King of Kings was furious over "another French insult." Month ago L'Europe Nouvelle criticized the economic condition of Iran. The King of Kings demanded an apology, received one. A French columnist last week reopened the wound by rehearsing the incident under the punning headline // n'y avait pas la de quoi fouetter un Shah. This was a parody of the French phrase "There was nothing there with which to beat a cat," suggesting that the King of Kings had made a fuss about nothing. The poor pun was enough to make Reza Shah Pahlavi last week recall...
Meyers Co. (Albany, N. Y.), asserting that adoption of the platform would "change the form of distribution in this country for the next 50 years." Yet Harry Schachter of Kaufman-Straus Co. (Louisville, Ky.) flatly announced that the merchants of his city were behind the platform "100%." After this confused reception, the platform was hastily shoved underground into the hands of the resolutions committee. Most of the merchants felt they were being pushed into something about which they knew very little. And among some the conviction was growing that after all uniform Federal regulation for industry as a whole might...
...game. Chief Bingo operators are cinema houses, clubs, and Roman Catholic churches in the East, the first discovering that the game fills the house no matter how poor the picture, the latter two finding it a fine money-raiser for worthy causes. The Catholic Bishop of Albany, .N. Y. last month outlawed Bingo in his diocese (TIME, Dec. 21), but his apostolic colleagues of the East have not followed suit...
Tamer In Buffalo, N. Y., on his day off Lion Tamer John Taylor, 66, was picked up by Patrolman Howard Leininger who reported that he was "drunk and nasty and ferocious and snarled." Tamer Taylor confessed that when he got drunk he couldn't feed the lions because he wasn't "quick enough." Said the judge: "You'd better . . . take to feeding rabbits." Blast In Fairview, 111., a keg of wet blasting powder was lugged into the house of Albert Taylor, 61, to dry beside a stove. As Taylor sat down to dinner with his wife...
Among the most valued paintings received was the "Visitation" by El Greco, one of the most unusual examples of this artist's works, the gift of an anonymous donor. To the collection of Florentine paintings three 14th century canvases were added by Miss Margaret Whitney, of Milbrook, N. Y. the water color collection was increased by a large group painted by Dr. Denman W. Ross and some of his pupils, and by a late work of Winslow Homer...