Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish to see its reputation damaged by the latest uncontrolled activities of the KGB." During the five-day trial, sympathizers gathered outside the courtroom. A letter to "world public opinion" condemning the "witch trials" as "a wild mockery of justice no better than the purge trials of the 1930s" was circulated by Mrs. Yuli Daniel and Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin's Foreign Minister and one of the most daring of the dissidents. Shivering so badly in the January weather that her friends had to hold her to keep her warm, Larisa Daniel was asked why, when her husband...
...land was in chronic economic chaos and political disarray: in 161 years it had had 45 governments, some lasting only days. As Premier after 1932, Salazar squashed partisan quarreling with dictatorial measures and brought order to the economy by applying conservative, pre-Keynesian fiscal policies. By the late 1930s, he was flirting openly with fascism. He backed Franco against the Spanish Republicans. While Portugal remained neutral in World War II, Salazar at first sympathized with the Axis; when it became clear that that was the losing side, he granted bases in the strategically located Azores Islands...
...company originated as a track builder for Western railroads. It undertook dozens of rail projects, notably a 725-mile stretch (with 45 tunnels) of Western Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada and the Feather River Canyon. In the 1930s, Utah started its all-out expansion. It became one of Six Companies, Inc., a consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million...
Died. Dennis O'Keefe, 60, breezy cinemactor of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, who played in scores of films, including Hold That Kiss, Brewster's Millions, T-Men; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Edward Flanagan was his name, bit parts and stunting were his game when O'Keefe was discovered by Clark Gable in 1937 and given a screen test that started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the late '40s, he was writing and directing his own movies; he tried TV with The Dennis O'Keefe...
Died. Kay Francis, 63, one of Hollywood's leading ladies in the 1930s and early '40s; of cancer; in Manhattan. Talking movies were still in their infancy in 1929 when Kay, already established on Broadway, gave the industry a boost by bringing beauty, elegance and warmth to some 50 films (One Way Passage, Trouble in Paradise, I Found Stella Parrish...