Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Summerlin's responsibilities begin when the royal train crosses the international boundary from Canada shortly before midnight Wednesday. They continue until the visitors recross the boundary early Monday morning, except for such time as Their Majesties are in the company of President Roosevelt. Then Colonel Starling takes over...
...doing away with the 40-hour week-by stages both before and after Munich. There were many small strikes and one big attempt at a general strike, all defeated. The nation wanted unity and strength and was willing to back him. The extreme Left felt betrayed but the Right (except for a few strong-headed nationalists) forgave him all. Even so, he had many narrow escapes from being overthrown. Late last December he staved off defeat by only seven votes...
Last week Propaganda Minister Goebbels signed a police order, forbidding the Badenweiler march to be played except at functions Fiihrer Hitler is attending, and only in the Führer's presence. Penalty for playing it without Hitler: 150 marks fine or six weeks in a Nazi jail...
...opera than the stage. Composer of the music for The Love Parade (1929), Schertzinger started his campaign to bring opera to the screen when he had Grace Moore trill in One Night of Love, thus setting the fashion for innumerable musical films. Since all works of Gilbert & Sullivan (except The Pirates of Penzance) are in the public domain in the U. S., he could easily have produced The Mikado in Hollywood without paying royalties to the D'Oyly Carte Company, which owns the English rights. Instead, he went abroad to collaborate with Producer Toye...
Little is known about the strength of the British outfit, except that it beasts a capable three-miler (over there they leave two-mile races to schoolboys), and a very hot quarter-miler in the former of Pennington, British Olympic 220 ace. The Oxford-Cambridge outfit is also fairly strong in the hurdle department...