Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballyhoo surrounding this year's Tiger tank edition is mindful of the good burghers of Hanover, but Dick Hough, Ned Parke, and A1 Van de Weghe are certainly food for thought. Call the Orange and Black favorites for Saturday, but make the Crimson dark horses of a very light hue for the meet...
...Florida City there was a flurry of excitement just before the President shifted from train to motor car. A male figure in brown sweater and dark trousers was seen lurking by the road. Secret Service and police quickly threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub for the lurker. He escaped, nothing happened. The President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which...
Milwaukee's employment agency is a dark draftsman named Eugene J. Buerk. Nazi Buerk's wife is sick at home, so he interviews applicants at the Highland Cafe (see cut, p. 15). He talks to as many as 100 per day, prefers skilled mechanics and machinists, particularly in the automotive trades. Those who accept his proposition must pay their own way to Manhattan, plus $35 toward third-class fare on a German-American liner. Remainder of the fare (about $110) reportedly is paid by a German industrial cartel (Siemens & Halske; Volkswagen; Augsburg Machine Co.; Bosch; Daimler; Opel&Wanderwerke...
...Journalist Williams' dark opinion that: "The papal election of 1939 is destined to go down in history marked not only with great importance but also because of singular and possibly unique attending circumstances...
...years before that New Orleans-born, Manhattan-bred Playwright Hellman had piled up theatrical experience as pressagent and playreader. The Children's Hour was scarcely off on its 20-month run when Lillian Hellman was rushed to Hollywood. There she adapted such cinema hits as The Dark Angel, These Three (the movie version of The Children's Hour), Dead End. In 1936 her second play, Days to Come, opened on Broadway, got a poor press, closed...