Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flowery speech by a gentleman in smoked glasses, Consul José Zarza of the Cuban Republic. The speech said that Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate." At the end of it, Consul Zarza pinned a blue-ribboned gold medal upon Major Rowan. It was the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuba's highest honor.* The old soldier, suffering from age's infirmities and a rib broken last April, received his reward in silence...
...George, who is writing his memoirs and is the object of much sympathy in fashionable Mayfair, then blurred the sharp outlines of the "slap at Hitler" by going off to week-end with the Fuhrer's greatest friend in England, the Most Hon. The Marquess of Londonderry...
Playing together in a major tournament for the first time, they were the No. 1 attraction, had practically the whole gallery behind them when they posted their scores at the end of the round: 77 for the Big Haig, 79 for the Little Haig. Next day, Father & Son got 75 and 78 respectively, bowed out of the tournament.* Father Hagen's two-round score of 152 was just one digit too high to include him among the 66 low scorers who qualified for the 36-hole final...
...spite of the fact that he intended to put an end to these illegal practices, Attorney Arnold made it clear that he was not out to fight the A. M. A., that he would drop proceedings if the A. M. A. would stop chivying the cooperatives. Said he: "The department does not take the view that the offences committed are crimes which reflect upon the character or high standing of the persons involved. The analogy to which this proceeding should be compared is that of a prosecution for reckless driving committed by a person of distinction and good-will...
...biggest feature of the year: You Can't Take It With You, Screenwriter Robert Riskin's adaptation of the smash hit play by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman, for which Columbia's President Harry Cohn last year paid a record price of $200,000. By the end of June, with a new flock of birds added to a cast which already included such rarities as Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Donald Meek, Spring Byington and Mischa Auer, shooting on the picture ended and 329,000 feet of film were sent to the cutting room...