Word: davids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very much of a hero seemed tired ex-G-Man Turrou, until the day after his resignation, when the nature of his "opportunity to turn to writing" became known. For a reputed $40,000, Publisher Julius David Stern, ferociously anti-Nazi publisher of the Philadelphia Record and New York Post, had bought from Mr. Turrou, 15 minutes after he resigned, an "authentic" inside story behind U. S. Grand Jury Indictments of 14 German officials! On two excited pages, embellished with a Nazi air bomb plunging down on U. S. warships in the Panama Canal, Publisher Stern shouted...
...Sidney Hillman's plan for buying $10,000,000 of men's and boys' clothes for distribution to relief clients (TIME, June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers' Alliance of America (national union of WPA & relief workers) and hear his demand that WPA's minimum wage be raised from $21 per month...
Shaggy-maned Liberal David Lloyd George leaped to the attack. Mr. Chamberlain and his Cabinet members were carrying on "like a bevy of maiden aunts who had fallen among buccaneers," snorted the Wartime Prime Minister. "I should have taken very strong action if I had been Prime Minister. The airplanes which attacked British ships came from the Italian front in the Balearic Islands. I would first of all have seen these air-dromes destroyed until they stopped sending bombing planes against our ships. If Gladstone, Campbell-Bannerman, or Asquith had behaved as the Prime Minister has done they would have...
When in 1936 Producer David Oliver Selznick bought the screen rights to Margaret Mitchell's 1,520,000-copy Gone With the Wind, cinemaddicts jumped to the conclusion that, since his father-in-law is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Vice President Louis Burt Mayer, Producer Selznick would promptly cast two M-G-M stars-probably Clark Gable and Norma Shearer-as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Instead, Producer Selznick shrewdly announced that he had no idea who would play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, said he hoped to discover unknown actors for the parts...
Married. Rosemary Webster, 21, debutante daughter of Manhattan Surgeon David H. Webster; to Paul Gilson, 23, handsome but penniless Canton (N. Y.) poorhouse accountant; in Rochester, N. Y. Unable to stop the marriage. Father Webster proceeded to disinherit Daughter Rosemary "for the time being...