Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mostly they had kept their campaign on a more polite level, letting their henchmen prod WPAsters for Barkley votes, old age pensioners and State jobholders for Chandler votes...
...decree required that before Oct. 1, 1938 all Germans over 15 years of age must be ready to have themselves photographed, fingerprinted, and take out identity cards for which they will be charged from 40? to $1.20 each, depending on their economic status and the discretion of the authorities. Objects: to aid police in tracing criminals, to raise revenue...
...Loud, a veteran digger of 37 who now commands the Oriental Institute's Megiddo Expedition, was back in Chicago with news that he had penetrated the site down to bedrock, through 20 culture levels dating back to 3,500 B. C. Beneath the oldest level was a stone age cave containing flint instruments and bones. At the 19th level the excavators found a flagged paving in which drawings of horned animals and men had been cut. At the 18th level was a stone fortification wall 15 feet high and 24 feet wide, which indicated that there might have been...
...From 1930 to 1932, Capra worked only on pictures written by Jo Swerling. Then Capra, who by this time had the privilege accorded only to directors of proven worth, of collaborating on stories, got a new teammate, Robert Riskin, who had started writing scenarios at the age of 17. Lady for a Day, one of their early collaborations, got runner-up honors from the Motion Picture Academy and indirectly facilitated Capra's triumph the next year. Before Producer Cohn borrowed Clark Gable from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for It Happened One Night, Gable had been cast only in heavily romantic...
...late Andrew Carnegie; to James Frederick Gordon Thomson, 41, Edinburgh lawyer; at Dornoch, Scotland. Two years ago Miss Miller and Mr. Thomson, who have been close friends since she was 3, tried to elope, were persuaded by Miss Miller's mother to wait until she was of legal age...