Word: 1930s
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...that the Japanese are de-scended from their ancient gods, and that any order from a superior-in the government, in the army, at school-must be obeyed without question. State Shinto turned the Japanese state itself into a cult that reached its most extreme form from the late 1930s until the end of World...
DIED. LEON DAY, 78, baseball player; in Baltimore, Maryland. Day was a pitching star in the Negro National League in the 1930s and '40s, known for striking out 18 players in a game. A week before his death, Day was inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame...
GINIA BELLAFANTE'S PAEAN TO THE PRESENT Hollywood crop of young actors, ``Generation X-Cellent'' [Cinema, Feb. 27], devastatingly illustrates the debasement of currency in talent and beauty of today's actresses compared with their counterparts of the 1930s and '40s. Can the dim-bulb performance of Marisa Tomei in Only You (1994) stand up to Carole Lombard's luminosity in My Man Godfrey (1936)? How can Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore compete with Rita Hayworth's Gilda, Gene Tierney's Laura, Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa in Casablanca and Merle Oberon's Cathy in Wuthering...
...slabs inscribed with the President's words. Progress was steady but tortured. A proposed statue of Eleanor Roosevelt, F.D.R.'s peripatetic wife, showed her in the New Deal period wearing her famous traveling fur piece. But to head off the animal-rights people, Eleanor was moved from the mid-1930s gallery to the time after F.D.R.'s death when she was a delegate to the U.N. By then she was wearing a cloth coat...
...commission, co-chaired by Senators Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii (who lost an arm in the war), and including grandson David Roosevelt, is hunkering down. But the tide seems to be against their view: that F.D.R.'s deception of the 1930s-politically incorrect now but necessary, he believed, for the politics of the time-should be perpetuated in a monument intended for the ages. "We all need to understand what it was this man conquered,'' says Goodwin. "If Franklin Roosevelt were to come back, I think he would want his disability to be shown in some...