Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President." In 1886, the 49th Congress formally established Presidential succession among the Cabinet officers, based on seniority of their portfolios. Last week Franklin Roosevelt was 6,000 miles away in Buenos Aires, farthest any U. S. President had ever got from his White House desk. In hypothetical command of the nation was little old John Nance Garner who last week returned to Washington from Texas. Of the next seven men eligible to succeed to the Presidency, only five were in the country...
...When a letter from the admiral reminds him of their boyhood promise, Blake takes the desperate chance of using his semaphore to flash news of a naval victory which has not happened. The ruse delays the admiralty's plan until Nelson, with his full fleet at his command, has won gloriously and died at Trafalgar. Wounded by jealous Lord Stacy-whose wife is now ready to divorce him-Blake recuperates in time to see his old friend's catafalque...
...their forte in comedy, and are pounding away at it with gratification to all concerned. No need to linger in the drawing room and draw) out withering words, all in observance of the mity of space, no need for this with the wide world and dizzy speed at easy command. So the new comedy goes tearing around at a breakneck pace, and drives one into gulps of amazed laughter. "Love on the Run" is just such a picture, and keeps the promise contained in its title. But not content to run amuck with foaming month, it has anitched...
...face and Mephistophelean mustache. The strange career of Josef von Sternberg was just coming into its exotic bloom. Born Joe Stern in Vienna, Austria in 1894, he had risen from the cutting room, gambled his savings in a freelance silent picture, Salvation Hunters. Fame had come with The Last Command, Dragnet, Docks of New York, The Case of Lena Smith, Thunderbolt. He was in Germany to make one picture for UFA. He had been looking for a leading woman. He had one major requirement: she must have beautiful legs, and a minor reservation: he preferred that she be unknown. Marlene...
Johnny almost stops the War by forming an alliance with the German ranks, dosing the Allied High Command with laughing gas. For his pains he is sent home, locked up for ten years in an insane asylum...