Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumania. Dowager Queen Marie permitted herself to be elected last week president of Regina Maria Productions, a talkie-making firm which will produce 100% Rumanian films...
Germany. Professor Max The Miracle Reinhardt pooled his resources with Showman Curtis Melnitz, onetime Berlin manager for United Artists Theatre Circuit of America, and bought controlling interest last week in Terra Film, a leading German cinema firm which he will use to produce German talkie operettas, later talkie operas...
Engaged. Elizabeth Evans Hughes, 23, daughter of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; and William Thomas Gossett, 25, lawyer employe of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight, the Chief Justice's onetime Manhattan firm...
...Moved the Stone?" is a sympathetic and intelligent study of the events of the latter half of Passion Week, and, working on a firm historical and biblical foundation, Mr. Morison proceeds by deductive reasoning to solve the mystery of the stone. At times the story is intensely absorbing, then again it becomes dull because of the slow and pedantic mauncy in which the answer is finally reached. The author is too much of a scholar to keep up the vivid and interesting style of the early chapters...
...Princetonian holds no especial brief for the triple agreement. That it exerted a vigorous and beneficial influence on intercollegiate sport is of course, our firm conviction. That Harvard-Yale-Princeton athletic relations can find no more enduring basis than a similar agreement carefully revised is our sincere belief. Nevertheless. If a dual contract between Harvard and Princeton could adequately take into account the interests of Yale's pivotal position, then refusal to negotiate would frustrate all hope of resumption by overemphasizing a set of rules that are excellent but not sacrosanct. Youth is impatient--sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly...