Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Made as a quickie in 14 days by Producer Hunt Stromberg and Director W. S. Van Dyke II, the first Thin Man revealed some surprising facts...
Diplomatist. "Given to duty and very clever in carrying it out," was the way Fisherman-Essayist Henry van Dyke described Queen Wilhelmina in the days when he was U. S. Minister to her court...
Died. John Wesley Van Dyke, 89, self-made oil tycoon, strong-handed board chairman of Atlantic Refining Co., president of nine oil companies; after long illness; in Philadelphia...
...dignified Thomas Mann shinnied self-consciously down the Ivory Tower and announced that a writer's business is to be political as well as literary. Elder Brother Heinrich Mann might have snickered in his lush Van Dyke beard, for Brother Thomas was only preaching what Brother Heinrich has spent a lifetime practising. For some 40 of his 68 years he has been writing a series of historical novels which constitutes a political and sociological record of the German people from Kaiserdom to "folkdom." If there is no Magic Mountain among his collected works, Brother Heinrich might well claim that...
...grand jury returned indictments against twelve living Democrats, one dead (Warren Van Dyke) for assorted skulduggeries including payroll padding, coercing employes for political contributions, conspiracy to control the bonding of highway contracts. Among the 13: Governor Earle's Secretary of the Commonwealth David Lawrence, Democratic State Chairman who is out on bail on a previous indictment in connection with a gravel scandal; his Secretary of Labor & Industry, Ralph M. Bashore; his Secretary of Highways, Roy E. Brownmiller...