Word: done
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile the Nye committee pumped J. P. Morgan, Thomas Lament and their partners, trying to prove that they had helped to grease the skids that plunged the U. S. into war. There was no evidence that they had tried to. It could not even be proved that they had done so unwittingly." Very definite is the evidence recorded by the Committee that the Morgan firm did operate in a way to circumvent American neutrality and steps that were intended to help us keep out of Europe...
...unprecedented. Two other big-game anglers have landed two in one day: Briton W. E. S. Tuker off Tocopilla, Chile and Calif ornian J. W. Jump off Catalina Island. What made last week's catch an unparalleled achievement was the fact that Angler Lerner had done it for the second time-one day in 1936, in the same waters, he caught a 535-pounder and a 601-pounder (a North American record...
Last week Joe Yule, who has done bits in Idiot's Delight and two other recent pictures, was signed to a three-year contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mickey's home lot. Salary: $100 a week, $25 more than he was earning at the Follies. Promptly assigned a bit as a stagehand in Fast and Furious with Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern, Joe Yule modestly remarked: "My ambition is to be as much of a success in the movies as I was on the stage...
...Hollywood apartment, Cinemactress West and Leader Buchman smiled happily, swapped compliments. Beamed Mae, billowy in pink negligee: "It is a wonderful work. ... I owe all my success to the kind of thinking Moral Re-Armament is." Gallantly responded Dr. Buchman: "You are a splendid character, Miss West. You have done wonderful work...
...Willkie, Dave Lilienthal, relentless opponent of public utilities, but no Indiana farmer (he was born in Illinois, educated at Indiana's De Pauw University), had words of praise now that the war was over. He described Willkie as one of the outstanding proponents of private enterprise, "who has done a real job of selling electricity at low rates...