Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bordeaux University, 70 prominent French doctors gathered last week to discuss the effects of wine on the human body. Inevitably, the conclusions were favorable to wine. The experts, calling themselves the "Doctor Friends of French Wines," banded together in the early 1930s to blow away a whiff of prohibition sentiment which wafted over France...
Once edited by Poet Lafcadio Hearn, the 72-year-old Item had its liveliest years (1891-1906) under gun-toting Editor & Publisher Dominick O'Malley, who was twice wounded in pitched battles. In the 1930s it slumped in prestige and circulation, partly because it acted as a mouthpiece for Boss Huey Long while the rival Times-Picayune- whiplashed his regime...
...glamourous past, tells the life story of the late Marilyn Miller. Fondly and sometimes foolishly, the script follows Marilyn (June Haver) from the day she joins up, in pigtails and high-button shoes, with her family's vaudeville act, to a fictitious revival of Sally in the 1930s. In between it sandwiches colorful chunks of a half dozen of Broadway's best-remembered shows, samplings of their biggest tune hits, reel after reel of dance routines by June Haver and Ray Bolger (as Jack Donahue), and assorted slapstick sequences by Charles Ruggles as Marilyn's father...
...bomber has an advantage over the fighter aircraft. Last week the man who has charge of developing the Air Force's planes and weapons, General Joseph T. McNarney, Chief of the Air Materiel Command, backed his colleagues' views, but he added a note of caution. In the 1930s, he recalled in an interview, airmen had the same notion, but the supposedly invulnerable bombers got badly shot up by fighters early in World...
Trouble at the Crossroads. Rivera's murals heavily influenced the WPA muralists who spread their work across the walls of U.S. post offices in the 1930s. About the same time, his own became increasingly complicated. He started spelling things out-caricaturing his personal and political enemies, deifying his heroes -and his paintings lost their poetic savor. But if his art was no longer so lyrical, Rivera's mural in Mexico City's old National Palace still made powerful prose. So did the clamorous panels he painted in the Detroit Institute of Arts to celebrate the machine...