Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rebuffed by President von Hindenburg when its new Speaker asked by telegram for an immediate interview with des Reichspräsident at his country estate in Neudeck, east Prussia, 260 miles from Berlin. The President, frankly playing the Dictator, wired back that he would grant audience to Fascist Speaker Goering "next week" in Berlin...
...Isle of Paradise (Independent). In the last year or two, a great deal has been heard about Bali, the Dutch East Indian island whose natives live like Utopians and raise three crops of rice a year. Reporter Hickman Powell wrote a book, The Last Paradise, about Bali; Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias last year exhibited his Balinese paintings; Balinese musicians astonished Paris two years ago. The Isle of Paradise, first feature-length cinema on the subject, will multiply the already large number of people who long to go to Bali. It shows a Balinese day from sunrise to sunset. There is nothing...
...purely & simply as news. When National Broadcasting Co. decided to build up a "Lowell Thomas of Religion," it went straight to young Dr. Stanley Hoflund High, journalist and preacher. Since piloting in the U. S. Air Service during the War, he has toured Europe five times, visited Russia, the East and Africa. Never ordained, Dr. High is now the pastor of Stamford's large First Congregational Church. For several months in 1930 Stanley High had a program of comment on religious happenings. Last fortnight his voice went out once more over the air in a program called "The World...
...Corp. Chairman of both is grinning, square-jawed Gerhard Melvin Dahl, onetime director of Cleveland's traction properties, later a trouble-shooting vice president of Chase National Bank. Together the two lines daily hurtle 5,000,000 New Yorkers up & down their rocky island, under and over the East River to Brooklyn and the Harlem River to The Bronx. The city's third system is municipally owned. Though it carries no passengers yet, its empty trains have rumbled up & down under Eighth Avenue for a long time just for practice. Last week the periodic threat of city officials...
...pathos, dies; Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante, who appears in one scene for five minutes; Billie Dove, whose once shapely figure has assumed dimensions hardly commensurate with her rôle?that of Miss Davies' friend in the Follies. The story concerns the quick jump of the two young ladies from an East Side tenement to swank apartments on Park Avenue. First Miss Dove gets into the chorus, permits herself to be kept. Miss Davies follows in short order, is set up in style befitting a "regally gilded queen." Montgomery, once provider for Miss Dove, falls in love with Miss Davies. The frequent...