Word: bolton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped to convict and whose arrest and trial he has covered with breath-taking efficiency, is meant to afford the denouement of the film and, handled with more care, it might have been an exceedingly effective melodramatic twist. Unfortunately, Authors Tim Whelan (who also directed the film) and Guy Bolton built up to it poorly through the earlier portions of the picture, which develop Grey's romance with the director of the Star's "Lovelorn Column" (Virginia Bruce). The Murder Man is consequently only a little better than the average popgun and city-room mystery play, distinguished mainly...
...which the House of Commons was ringing with ironic cries of "Remember the Maine!" Aboard the hospital ship Maine, which was used last week by Government bigwigs & friends as a floating grandstand, the food was so abominable and the service so slow that First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell next day addressed a letter of apology to each distinguished guest. In swank Mayfair a rich young Argentine made herself obnoxious to English friends by screaming at cocktail parties, "My dears, in the crush I had a perfect piece of meat on my plate when a clutching hand...
...Grilled First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell concerning newspaper charges by Welsh Has-Been David Lloyd George that His Majesty's Government could have persuaded Realmleader Hitler to write a German pledge to abolish submarines into the exchange of notes in which Britain gave Germany a blank check to violate the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24). Nettled, Sir Bolton admitted that abolition of submarines had been discussed during the negotiations but insisted that the British Government had obtained from the German Government everything Realmleader Hitler was willing to concede. Stenographic records of the parley were then...
...year-old President Jack Frye flared up with a blunt statement squarely laying blame for the crash not on TWA but on the Department of Commerce. Said he: "The real cause of the accident was that Pilot Bolton attempted to come down through a ceiling reported by the Bureau of Air Commerce observer at Kirksville as 7,000 ft. ... What he actually found was practically a zero-zero condition. . . . The accident occurred . . . solely because the favorable landing conditions reported by the observer at Kirksville did not exist...
...transport picked its way between a farmhouse and a barn near Atlanta, Mo., struck a fence, crashed heavily into a road embankment, turned over. Crushed to death were Pilot Bolton. Co-Pilot Kenneth Greeson, New Mexico's millionaire-Senator Bronson Cutting, a 20-year-old girl-sister of the TWA radio dispatcher who had been directing the plane. Injured were a mother and baby, the wife of a TWA pilot, five Hollywood cinemen and the wife of one, who died next...