Word: denham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began has been trying to roar like an airplane engine, took off with a movie glorifying Britain's air defenses. It was called The Lion Has Wings. Conceived by Ian Dalrymple, who scripted The Citadel, edited by American William Hornbeck, produced by Alexander Korda at his Denham lot in twelve crowded days and nights, Britain's first propaganda film of World War II was shown first to the Ministry of Information and the censors. Fearful of disclosing war secrets, they slashed out vast footage, mostly shots of balloon barrages, and the interiors of munitions factories. After that...
...stars from War zones, publicity releases painted a terrifying picture of others being mustered to foreign colors. Only important stars still stranded in Europe last week were Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan, who had reported for work at M. G. M.'s English studio at Denham. And only one Hollywood star actually took passage for Europe: Tyrone Power's French wife Annabella, who flew by transatlantic Clipper to bring her family back from Paris...
Visiting a cinema studio at Denham. England. ex-Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia watched actors work on a new cinema called Peace In Our Time...
...employes of big, 494-branched Bank of America in its white-collar United Office & Professional Workers union. One Edward C. Washer, in a Los Angeles branch of the bank, was an active organizer last year. He was fired in November. Last week NLRB's Trial Examiner R. N. Denham ordered Employe Washer reinstated with back pay, ordered Bank of America-which it pronounced engaged in interstate commerce -to stop blocking C. I. O., or any other union...
Representatives in Jamaica's Colonial Legislature empowered Captain-General* & Governor Sir Edward Brandis Denham to declare a state of emergency if necessary. Eighty British soldiers and 400 native policemen were mobilized; 100 local militiamen, 250 special constables were called out. The British cruiser Ajax, with 550 well-armed bluejackets, rushed to the scene from Bermuda. On Britain's Empire Day-May 24-police and mobs clashed. Three Negroes were killed, 30 persons went to the hospital, 70 labor leaders, including forceful chief Labor Leader Alexander Bustamante, were jailed. At week's end the dock workers' strike...