Word: berg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then fired. His indefensible offense: broadcasting over Los Angeles radio station KEHE that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer officials had propped up dead Actor Robert McWade (TIME, Jan. 31), photographed the back of his head to complete a scene in Of Human Hearts. To backers of New York's proposed Berg Bill, designed to bring radio slander under the libel laws, Hollywood's resounding reproof of Gossiper Garrett brought great satisfaction; to harebrained radio gossipers, pause...
...Secretary of War married, every newspaper in the land would burgeon with accounts and pictures of his bride, her life, romance, wardrobe, nuptials. Last week Germany's Minister of War, grim-lipped Nazi Werner von Blom-berg-59, a widower for five years and father of five children-took a second wife, but for 24 hours the regimented German press was not able to learn even the bride's name. Finally the honeymooners were found, strolling through the zoo in Leipzig, the bride's name revealed: Erika Gruhn, 28-year-old daughter of a Hanover carpenter...
...Standard Oil Co. of California. Last month Standard's famed President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury died in Panama. Last week Standard's directors met briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide a new Standard Oil tanker. Name: William H. Berg...
...nudged and nursed through the wilderness, it moved like an ambling village, its scouts fanned out before it to hunt game and fight off raiders, and births, deaths and marriages taking place in the wagons lumbering along behind. Its patriarchal but still lusty leader was one Hendrik van der Berg, and the main plot of the novel revolves around his harsh, hard-bitten figure: the conflict between his Messianic impulses and his hopeless infatuation for the luscious and youthful Sannie van Reenen. his mind's decay under the strain, his eventual downfall. His followers go down with...
Most women golfers good enough to try for the U. S. championship are persistent matrons like Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, who was playing in her 13th national tournament last week, or enthusiastic youngsters like Patty Berg. Mrs. Page, 29, is neither. Wife of an accountant in Greensboro. N. C. she first took up golf for her health, has played only six years...