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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a State of War had been "thrust upon the United States'' by the German Government. For ten of the intervening years a conscientious, 47-year-old, Texas-born scholar, Dr. Charles Callan Tansill, onetime lecturer in diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins University, has been trying to find out what happened before that document was signed-what happened to U. S. finance, the munitions industry, and public opinion; to Wilson, Bryan, Lansing and the miscellaneous group of pacifists and practical politicians who made up Wilson's Cabinet; to the German Admiralty, to international law, even...
...world market with Hollywood's glossy, million-dollar exports Parliament knew quite well. But canny Britishers knew equally well that if Hollywood had to make between 75 and 150 quota pictures annually in the British Isles at a minimum cost of $75,000 each, it would undoubtedly find it good business to spend enough extra to insure a world-wide return on its investment...
...British) is a braw and bracing cinema story directed by versatile young Robert Stevenson (Nine Days a Queen, Non-Stop New York), based on Alfred Ollivant's Bob Son of Battle. As the dour old sheepherder, whose heart is as black as his dog, Black Wull, cinemaudiences may find squat Actor Will Fyffe's burring phrases difficult to understand, his meaning never. Veteran Actor Fyffe's renown as a folksy character is one of the brightest in Britain. His career as an entertainer started in his teens, when in one night he played a gravedigger, the ghost...
...Trade, Cargill laid its case in the hands of CEA Chief J.W.T. Duvel, has since maintained a wounded silence in its head offices at Minneapolis, awaiting the CEA decision in mid-April. Sniffed Cargill Attorney Weston B. Grimes: "It is not surprising that a committee of our competitors should find our purchases of September corn to be offensive...
...Paris. Although he gets Solange, and gets Andrée, both triumphs cost so much misery that even male readers are to have a low opinion of Costals by the time wins them. Their opinion might be even lower, Author de Montherlant implies, were they unable to find comparable cruelty somewhere in the history of their own love affairs...