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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineers to study the technical problems involved. Optimistically San Francisco voted a $45,000,000 bond issue. The last legal barrier fell in 1913 when Congress gave its full consent. By then Hetch Hetchy was a year past its real turning point. In July 1912 Engineer John R. Freeman drew up what have remained the basic plans for the system. Few months later San Francisco got for its City Engineer a vigorous Irishman named Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy, already well known for his work in California and Hawaii. The War and work on Hetch Hetchy began together. But nothing...
...last nine Serbian rulers, only three, including King Alexander's senile father, Peter I, died natural deaths while reigning. Spectacled Alexander never expected to share his father's luck. At his country estate in Bled last January he drew up his will and decreed that in case of his sudden death, three regents should rule the country until little Peter became...
Toward restoring the delicate European balance of power upset by Hitler's ascendancy, M. Barthou's old hand worked surely, swiftly. Most spectacularly, he made friends with Soviet Russia, drew Russia into the League. He had also helped Stanley Baldwin to decide that Britain's frontier must be on the Rhine. In a brilliant swing around Europe he had kept the wavering Little Entente in France's pocket. His trip up the Danube was a triumphant progress ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced...
Behind brilliant troops and massed bands, some 20,000 welcomers jam-packed the streets around the dock. Bright with fluttering pennons, French warships crowded the harbor. Airplanes droned overhead. Slowly the Jugoslavian warship drew in and docked. Erect and grave, King Alexander marched with his entourage down the gangplank. Minister Barthou stepped forward, smiling. The two men shook hands, chatted a moment. Officials, aides, secret service men clustered around them thick as flies. The party moved toward a line of shining automobiles. Cheering hoarsely the crowd strained against the tight rope of police and troops. King and Minister stepped into...
Director Vidor picked up his extras from the unemployed on Los Angeles streets, chose a dirt farm for his location where for two months he drew blue prints of each day's shooting. Result is a well-paced, high-pitched picture which, though it strikes no alarming political note, should help King Vidor keep his shirt...