Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ornate French Finance Ministry, after the Herriot Cabinet's fall, an agitated functionary rushed into the office of Finance Minister ad interim Louis Germain-Martin who was hungry and just about to go out to lunch...
...deck tennis, is equal to Hollywood's best, though not quite up to the standards so definitely set by the serious Germans. In chase scenes, a direct outgrowth of the Mack Sennet tradition, the director outdoes himself in making the sequences, tense with suspense, and in providing that complete ad absurdum which is the essence of true farce. To this movie there is a verve, a zest, an esprit which stamps it as typically French...
...Author. As a small boy in the late 1890's Lloyd Lewis heard many a tall tale from Indiana veterans about "Uncle Billy" Sherman. Schoolroom texts, newspaper work, ad-writing failed to dampen his curiosity. Three and one-half years ago he set to in earnest: interviewed Sherman relatives, tracked Sherman's movements, read masses of unpublished letters. His readable, scholarly biography is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Author Lewis, now dramatic critic of the Chicago Daily News, has also written Myths after Lincoln, Chicago: A History of Its Reputation (with Henry Justin...
...Herr Thyssen's enormous detective-watched residence Leader Hitler and Oberst Goring ate dinner after their flights to Berlin. They conferred the same night with Germany's modern Machiavelli, soft-spoken General-leutnant Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense in the von Papen Cabinet which continued to function ad interim. Germans soon noticed the surprising fact that several newsorgans of Biggest Business, such as Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitiing and Rheinisch-Westfalische, had abruptly switched from hostility to support of Adolf Hitler. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitiing urged President von Hindenburg "in the interest of that tranquillity required for business revival," to overcome...
...citizens awoke from their celebration to find' 19 of their 26 banks closed, $20,000,000 of their $30,000,000 in bank deposits tied up. Lieutenant Governor Griswold had proclaimed a 12-day moratorium on all obligations except taxes, had urged every bank to take ad vantage of it. The seven banks which decided to face all comers included Reno's First National which sent to San Francisco for $1,500,000 in cash and announced it stood ready to pay $3,000,000 over its counter. When this halted an incipient run President Richard Kirman beamed...