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Word: douglases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some Denverites: Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, Shoeman William Lewis Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers, Paul Whiteman, Author Courtney Ryley Cooper, Silverman Simon Guggenheim whose son is named George Denver.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Denver's Coronet | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

Without declaring martial law (he did not have to because Washington is Federal territory). President Hoover ordered Secretary of War Hurley to call out the Army from Fort Myer in nearby Virginia. Secretary Hurley passed the command along to handsome, well-tailored General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Battle of Washington | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

From New Zealand's not quite so handsome Chief Delegate Joseph Gordon Coates a similar blast was momentarily expected. But with the entire Conference in a state of preparatory flux the Mother Country quietly managed to keep her end up. She wangled her Secretary for War, Viscount Hailsham (famed when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Little Bird Told Me. . . . | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Markham-Skipworth, 57, is Hollywood's most reliable grande dame or "high class wicked woman." At 20 she was the wife of artist Frank Markham-Skipworth and starving in London. "To keep from starving" she took a part as understudy to Marie Tempest in The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 1, 1932 | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Is My Face Red? (RKO) takes a somewhat less complaisant view of colyumists. Its hero (Ricardo Cortez) is an impudent, conceited hack, perpetually touching pitch. "I am a mirror reflecting the spirit of the times," he says, and later: "I am the guy who made Broadway famous." He has a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The New Pictures: Jun. 20, 1932 | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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