Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grasp of Britain's colossal problems in air rearmament, Sir Christopher Bullock, Permanent Undersecretary of the Air Ministry (TIME, Aug. 17). Now that skilled and outspoken Sir Christopher is out of the way, silky Air Ministry civil servants have been going ahead on a secret program which they call "shadow aircraft engine industry." There is nothing of an engineering nature about this genteel idea, and last week Lord Nuffield blew the lid off. He declared that under "shadow aircraft engine industry" one factory is to make the crankshafts of British airplane engines, another is to make the cylinders...
...hunting, the King shot away from Sandringham in his car, leaving word that the party was to go on in his absence. Even officials charged with responsibility for the safety of His Majesty did not know where he had gone, but they felt better after putting through a telephone call to a small rambling bungalow in the village of Rushmere. There Mrs. Simpson was in residence with her royal retainers, conveniently adjacent to Ipswich, the town in which the suit was filed as "Wd Simpson v. Simpson"-the "Wd" indicating that the petitioner is the wife...
Deserting his family's potent American Smelting & Refining Co.. M. Robert Guggenheim Jr., 25-year-old nephew of one-time Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, closed up his Salt Lake City house, went to Hollywood, took a job as call boy for Selznick International Pictures...
Last week in accepting what he took pains to call the "unsolicited offer" of Mr. Hays, Mr. Harmon praised the Pope's last encyclical on the cinema (TIME, July 13), urged Y. M. C. A. men to work for better films...
...stacked against them. It is the strangest, longest, least readable, most infuriating and yet in some respects the most impressive novel that William Faulkner has written. At first glance it is so pompous in its language and so ridiculous in its theme that readers accustomed to honest dealing will call at once for a new hand. Its action takes place simultaneously on three levels, and although Author Faulkner includes a map, a chronology and a cast of characters to help keep the sequences clear, they do not help much...