Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are two main reasons why Adolf Hitler should think twice before taking any cue from newsprint polemics and moving armed forces to aid his German racial comrades in the Sudeten territory. The first is that he knows that the Czechs, who have been preparing for 15 years for just such an eventuality, would turn their full-armed strength of 1,500,000 men into the field. The second is that invasion of Czechoslovakia by Hitler would almost certainly bring France, the Soviet Union, and probably Britain rushing to the aid of the Czechs...
Manhattan. A few weeks before Christmas, Cue, a Manhattan magazine devoted almost entirely to cinema & theatre news, polled its 19,000 subscribers, found they stood 9-to-1 against the double bill. Last fortnight Cue decided to broaden the scope of its inquiry, queried 150,000 residents of Greater New York, New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester and Connecticut. Last week first results of Cue's new poll were in. Fran Darien. Conn, down through the towns and villages flanking Long Island Sound, and in sections of New York City, the double feature was taking a decisive beating, ranging from...
...serious mistake. Last August in the closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York's Senator Wagner had the floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Although Alben Barkley has cast a good Southern vote against anti-lynching bills in the past, he was caught in a legislative trap. To prevent...
...adept hand in managing the press, Franklin Roosevelt knows when to make news, when not to make it. Last week, in the midst of the sharpest U. S. diplomatic crisis since the World War (see col. 2), his cue was not to make...
...direction of Graduate Jose Ferrer, applauded the trouper hardihood of Actors Richard Cowdery and Richard Baer. It also enjoyed the minor accidents incidental to a Triangle Show first night: hats falling off sighing lovers, and dummy legs falling off hobbyhorses, a mob scene's mob missing its cue, spotlights searching frantically for actors bravely singing in the dark...