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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davison unexpectedly tendered his resignation as the leader of the organization. Every man present realized that he had earned the right of retirement from an organization which has meant a long round of unceasing labor and devotion in order to preserve it in the face of Harvard indifference and build it up to be recognized by leading musicians to be the outstanding choral organization in the world. Such an achievement is one which may well be considered a success...
...proprietary interest in it." Before leaving the cutter Samuel Insull gave newshawks a prepared statement: "I have erred, but my greatest error was in underestimating the effect of the financial panic on American securities and particularly on the companies I was working so hard to build. "I worked with all my energy to save those companies. I made mistakes, but they were honest mistakes. They were errors in judgment but not dishonest manipulations. ". . . You only know the charges of the prosecution. Not one word has been uttered in even a feeble defense of me. And it must be obvious that...
...this had nothing to do with Cab Calloway. It meant that the 33-year-old movement, to build a great Arab nation under a single ruler, had reached a crisis. Huge, gaunt Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, was about to capture Yemen, last important independent territory on the Peninsula. The Imam of Yemen was reported dead and Ibn Saud's men already in the streets of the seaport of Hodeida. Belching clouds of black smoke, British and Italian cruisers and destroyers raced to Yemen "to protect nationals...
...went the award for "successful pioneering and achievement in aircraft manufacture and air transportation." Son of a wealthy Michigan lumberman, "Bill" Boeing went to Yale, left to learn the logging business. Taught how to fly by Glenn L. Martin in 1915, he bought a machine, decided he could build a better one. In Seattle he established a one-room factory with 20 employes. Today, with more than 1,000 employes, his plane factory is one of the world's largest, has produced 53 types of military and commercial aircraft, including the famed three-mile-a-minute Boeing 247, likely...
...will rival Garbo's. The character players who make up the local color are taken from Miss Vollmer's radio sketch of the Tennessee mountains, "Moonshine and Honeysuckle," and are used only as folls for Miss Hepburn. Ralph Bellamy and Robert Young, young engineers who invade the backwoods to build a dam, offer complications which are not very important, except as they create dramatic situations for Katharine. As for Miss Hepburn's complete domination of the picture, that is an open question. The cinema magnates have probably found that the public wants unadulterated . . . Hepburn. Broadway thought differently when it gave...