Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clair made The Ghost Goes West. Provost Gow of Baikie (Cecil Parker), treading pompously toward Parliament, stumbled over Mrs. Honoria Hegarty's (Sara Allgood's) dog. Patsy, and her without the money to buy him a license at all. With the twists given this incident by a bright young journalist (Rex Harrison), Patsy's grief is heard all the way to London, and the resulting sympathy nearly forces Provost Gow into the political doghouse. But his daughter Victoria (Vivien Leigh) brings everybody to heel...
This report, American Recommended Practice of School Lighting, was based on a study sponsored by the Illuminating Engineering Society and American Institute of Architects. It declared many schoolchildren had so little light for their work that they suffered from eyestrain, irritability, headaches. Even on a bright day children in the darkest part of a classroom may get only five foot-candles,* one-twentieth as much light as those near the windows, and on a dark day illumination of their desks may drop as low as one footcandle. The investigators claimed tests showed children did 28% better in reading when they...
...Foot-candle: The illumination provided by a standard candle on a surface one foot away. Intensity of light in the sun on a bright day is about 10,000 foot-candles, in the shade...
Died. Kubec Glasmon, 40, Polish-born screen writer; of heart disease; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A druggist during Prohibition on Chicago's gang-infested West Side, short, mild-mannered Kubec Glasmon teamed up with an ex-newshawk, John Bright, wrote a series of gangster movies, Public Enemy, Smart Money, Blonde Crazy, Taxi...
...succeed resigned Joseph A. Broderick in the longest (14 years) term on the Federal Reserve Board, Franklin Roosevelt nominated bright-eyed Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper, whose job it was to ride herd on the riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington (TIME, Feb. 14). Six years out of Amherst, in 1912 Ernest Draper became president of American Creosoting Co., in 1920 shifted to vice president of Hills Brothers Co., packers of Dromedary Dates. Long prominent in such groups as the New York State Advisory Commission on Minimum Wage and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper...