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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bloody operating rooms of France during the War, Dr. Cushing led a life of scientific asceticism. In spite of grueling works (he often performed as many as six operations in one day) he faithfully jotted down his scientific observations. He also found time to keep a detailed journal. As remarkable for its restraint as for its scientific and military detail, the journal tells in vivid doctor's language of Dr. Cushing's siege of Polyneuritis ambulatoria, a crippling inflammation of nerve trunks, which caused the muscles in his soles and palms to waste away. After the Armistice...
Before making the picture, Producer Goldwyn, a stickler for detail, landscaped 540 California acres into a Yorkshire moor. He imported eight British actors, a dialect expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...
...example, the article in the March 13 issue on William Randolph Hearst. All that detail may be important to those connected with the publishing business, but for persons like myself it is enough to know that: Hearst steps down...
...which called loudly for haste by the Congress, and the Workers Alliance (union of unemployed and reliefers), which announced a march to Washington of 100 delegates representing 800,000 Southern WPA workers for a protest meeting this week. WPAdministrator "Pink" Harrington went up to the Capitol to testify in detail about his needs, armed with State-by-State figures on the impending layoffs. These maneuvers worried many a Congressman. On others they had an opposite effect. Apostles of Economy were goaded into balkiness. The first skirmish of the Second Battle of Relief was promptly fought...
...army is not only melting away but our national position is doing the same, that ill bird The Times wh. daily fouls its own nest contributes powerfully to the decline of England. . . . Things are bad enough Heaven knows in the Crimea but the glowing colors in wh. every detail is painted have excited the people of this country almost to madness & have led among other things to a ministerial crisis...