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Word: douglases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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And So They Were Married (Columbia) begins with a conflict between a divorcee (Mary Astor) and a widower (Melvyn Douglas), who pretend to dislike each other when they find themselves temporarily snowbound in a winter resort, quickly draws into the conflict the woman's small daughter (Edith Fellows), the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 25, 1936 | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Specific recommendations will not be made until other reports are in. But the trend of SEC thought, guided by brilliant young Commissioner William Orville Douglas who has handled the protective committee study, was summed up sharply in its observations in the municipal field. Urging extension of the Municipal Bankruptcy Act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Preface to Protection | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Under reporters' excited queries Director Hoover declared the Department of Justice had for two months been hot on the trail of Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, wanted for robbery, kidnapping and murder. Few days before the Karpis capture Director Hoover chartered a twin-motored Douglas transport plane in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Dirty Yellow Rat | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Last year's winner of the best biography was Douglas S. Freeman with his two volume edition of "R.E. Lee," and the year previous Tyler Dennett won with his work on John Hay.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RALPH PERRY WINS PULITZER PRIZE FOR BEST BIOGRAPHY | 5/5/1936 | See Source »

Same day the Karpis-Campbell rewards were announced, Director Hoover received proof that not all Senators regard him and his work as does Tennessee's Kenneth Douglas McKellar, who as chairman of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee recently lopped $225,000 off the Bureau's 1937 appropriation increase recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Old Creepy | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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