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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wall Street Journal (Aug. 11), article by Thomas Sutton on p. 1, headed "S. O. N. J. World Oil Unit," states in first paragraph "so that today it stands as the world's leading producer and refiner of petroleum...
...Supreme Court judge and a Public Service commissioner, Senator Huey Pierce Long had mobilized Louisiana's entire national guard to insure a "clean election." He had also made his Legislature pass enough laws month before to turn over to his henchmen complete control of the electoral machinery (TIME, Aug. 27). No match for the "Kingfish" in legislative wiles, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley had an augmented police force of 2,000 which nearly equalled Senator Long's militant manpower...
...Sixty members of the Berlin diplomatic corps went to the first reception at the Presidential Palace since Adolf Hitler assumed his new top-dog role of Realmleader after the death of President von Hindenburg (TIME, Aug...
There were plenty of prizes, but, as suspected, the very carnal Czechoslovakian film Exstase, even though it so far surpassed every other film in popularity that the Vatican's Osservatore Romano was forced to publish biting editorials (TIME, Aug. 27), won none of them. Prize for the most entertaining film went to Frank Capra's It Happened One Night. Douglas Fairbanks' British-made Private Life of Don Juan was voted the best world première. For giving the largest presentation of films, the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America got a loving cup. Acclaimed...
...joined the company of Viva Villa as an extra, got a small featured role without bothering to reveal her identity. Paramount scouts liked her work, singled her out for a long term contract before they knew her name. She refused to play in her father's Cleopatra (TIME, Aug. 27). Her next picture will be The Gilded Lily...