Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When William Shakespeare was ready to write the story of Cleopatra, he needed nothing more than pen, ink, paper and his own lively genius. Three centuries later George Bernard Shaw required no more equipment for the same task. But when Paramount put Cecil Blount DeMille to work on this well-worn old tale, that old-time director could not even get started without $750,000, a majority of the unemployed actors in Hollywood, ten crates of real grapes by airmail from South America, an $800 history book and a month of conferences aboard his yacht. Last week, after four more...
...more scrap steel from the U. S. Sugar at 2¢ per lb. for the first time in four years may in time permit the U. S. to regain a $150,000,000 Cuban export market, now almost vanished. Better prices for shellac and pepper, favorites of boisterous Speculator Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, better prices for jute, hemp, antimony, caraway seed, balm of Gilead and scores of other minor world commodities will eventually result in a rising volume of international trade...
Into a Manhattan public bath walked Dr. Herman Baruch, brother of Bernard Mannes Baruch. Then he walked out and told newshawks: "When I got away, I picked two cooties off my coat sleeves." In the next few weeks Brother Herman will inspect more public baths and swimming pools in Manhattan, draw up a report on them tor Brother Bernard. When he returns from taking his cure at Vichy, Brother Bernard in turn will report to Mayor LaGuardia on the need for more baths. Brother Herman explained: "I've been interested in public baths for many years because my father...
Birthdays. George Bernard Shaw, 78; Col. Edward Mandell House, 76; Henry Ford, 71; Don Marquis, 56; Benito Mussolini, 51; Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee...
...Next day NRAdministrator Johnson was found in New York golfing with his friend Bernard Baruch. Said the General: "I certainly am not ill. I came here to get a little rest...