Word: closing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case drew to a close, Sir William Jowitt, ace lawyer for Lord Rothermere, summed up by observing that not only was the Princess' story that she had been promised $20,000 yearly for life untrue, "but if it were true it could only be true on the basis that this lady was flirting with blackmail...
Last week Canada Dry staged a birthday broadcast and shindig at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for its experts of the year, guests and regulars, and for close friends and associates of Information Please. With Postmaster James Aloysius Farley as the guest, Kieran, Adams & Levant for the first time in their career missed not a single question (although Jim Farley caused a few anxious moments by hemming & hawing over the identity of faces on new U. S. stamp issues...
When Joseph Barnes gave up his job in Berlin and went home for a rest (weary of constant Nazi threats to muzzle him), Herald Tribune editors debated long over Beach Conger's youth and inexperience, finally gave him Barnes's place. Blond, meticulous, with close-cropped hair and thick-lensed spectacles, Conger looks like a respectable German official. Within two hours after his arrival in Berlin he had telephoned more people than Joseph Barnes knew. Most of them were young Nazis who had once been his schoolmates...
...believed that democracy had been a dismal failure, Editor Agar swung leftward with Roosevelt. His recent books are pious, eloquent, Democratic; his syndicated column, Time and Tide, has a resolutely New Deal aura. He takes his seat in Marse Henry's vacant office next January, at the close of a current lecture tour...
...soldier with a sword piercing his throat, another transfixed by an arrow, an agonized, trumpeting elephant with a spear sticking in its eye, a soldier caught by a wounded elephant's trunk dashed to pieces against the ground. But there are some surprise shots of tranquil loveliness: a close-up of five banks of oars leisurely sweeping a Roman quinquereme through still water; against a big sunset cloud pile, the beak of Hannibal's galley drifting into Carthage harbor as he returns defeated from Italy...