Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Locarno Room, after Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had strewed a few autumn leaves of noncommittal oratory, proceedings opened with this double-barreled deadlock: 1) Japanese Chief Delegate Admiral Osami Nagano ultimatumed that nothing else was to be discussed until naval parity was conceded to Japan. Britain counted on the U. S. to bear the brunt of insisting that the 5-5-3 ratio be maintained with Japan at the short end. 2) Italy, while expecting 5-5-3 to dynamite the conference, was adamant in her standing demand for naval parity with France, which in turn maintained her standing refusal...
...Last autumn Producer Zanuck offered the Quintuplets' guardians $100,000 for their appearance in a picture, began negotiating in competition with Mary Pickford, who wanted them for United Artists, and Harold Lloyd who wanted them for The Milky Way. Before anything was settled, last October Mr. Zanuck's staff was fussing with love interest, conflict, a villain for their story. Last month Zanuck signed up the Quintuplets, was ready to go to work on The Country Doctor with the role of Dr. Dafoe played by Jean Hersholt. Incidents during the week's shooting which...
...have a look at the locale he had been writing about. When, about six years ago, his royalties became sizable, Author Mulford bought a house in Fryeburg, Me., threw away his white shirts & collars, settled down to write and have fun. On the Trail of the Tumbling T last autumn made his 25th book...
...France, after much pressure by British Ambassador Sir George Clerk upon the Quai d'Orsay, Premier Pierre Laval guardedly repeated the ambiguous pledge he gave last autumn in such terms that London papers last week gave their readers to understand that M. Laval had said France will join England in the fight if Mussolini should do anything silly...
...Bridgeport, Conn., Dr. Myron Anson Warriner, 79, went back 48 years to recall the autumn day when as a young North Brookfield, Mass, practitioner three years out of Harvard Medical School, he was called to attend a sturdy French huntsman named LeTourneau who had accidentally blown off his face with a shotgun. The man's family and another physician, an old Army man, agreed with the young doctor on the best thing to do. Dr. Warriner gave the mangled huntsman a fatal dose of morphine...