Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly all New York's social reforms of the past 30 years. Miss Wald, a pacifist, has been black-listed by the D. A. R. but she counts among her friends, and the friends of Henry Street, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman (who once worked in the Settlement), Alfred Emanuel Smith (whose native Oliver Street is hard by), the late Theodore Roosevelt and Ramsay MacDonald. Last spring, ailing at 66, Miss Wald gave up her post as Head Worker, succeeded Banker Felix Moritz Warburg as president. In announcing that Helen Hall would become Head Worker, Banker Warburg said: "New York...
...front of the pier a square expanse of water was kept severely clear by patrol boats. Against its boundaries pressed a cluster of excursion boats, yachts, freighters, runabouts, canoes. Everywhere on shore the red, white & green of Italy fluttered overhead. Peddlers hawked pictures of Benito Mussolini, of King Victor Emanuel, of Italo Balbo...
...Around the World in 80 Minutes, through all of which ran a story's thread. From Russia have come nonfictional propaganda pictures (Turksib, Ten Days That Shook the World). The War Department and private producers have shown War films (Powder River, The Big Drive), and before that Emanuel Cohen of Pathe News exhibited a three-reeler called Flashes of the Past. Such was the meagre history of the non-fiction film field until last week, when Frederick Ullman Jr., of Pathe and Writer Gilbert Seldes (The Seven Lively Arts) showed This Is America to an enthusiastic audience in Manhattan...
Bristling with American Legion pins. William Edward ("Bill") Easterwood Jr., big breezy Texan and vice-commander of the Legion, was in Rome last week. He called on Italy's King Victor Emanuel and Premier Benito Mussolini, afterwards confided to the Press: "Premier Mussolini asked for the pin I wore on my hat and I pinned it on his lapel. I offered the King the one I had on my coat and pinned it on his lapel. He said he was very proud to wear it." Thus Vice-Commander Eas terwood thought he had made Italy's King...
...fast as cable wires could hum. Legion National Commander Louis Arthur Johnson rebuked Easterwood: "Constitution prohibits honorary memberships in American Legion. Please govern yourself accordingly." Undaunted, Easterwood invited King Victor Emanuel to address the Legion's October convention in Chicago by radio, told him the Legion's 1936 convention would probably be held in Rome. The King gave Easterwood his warm, rabbit-toothed smile. Said Legion ary Easterwood of his new friends: "They both are war veterans of a country allied with us in the World War, and they have a right to wear the buttons...