Word: g
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marine Corps from 19,000 to 25,000, the National Guard from 190,000 to 235,000 (if the States agree). 2) He allotted $500,000 to the State Department to finance repatriation of endangered U. S. citizens in Europe. 3) He upped G-Man Edgar Hoover's force by 150, to hunt down spies...
...immediate news. Studios jittered over the return of stars from War zones, publicity releases painted a terrifying picture of others being mustered to foreign colors. Only important stars still stranded in Europe last week were Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan, who had reported for work at M. G. M.'s English studio at Denham. And only one Hollywood star actually took passage for Europe: Tyrone Power's French wife Annabella, who flew by transatlantic Clipper to bring her family back from Paris...
...announced a string of comedies. Charles Chaplin continued with The Dictator, and Paramount bought the timely Battalion of Death. Though War Department plans for drafting industry naturally include the cinema, only hint last week from Washington was a request to advance the release date on two patriotic pictures: M. G. M.'s Thunder Afloat (about the Navy) and 20th Century-Fox's 20,000 Men (about the college pilot training program begun by the Civil Aeronautics Authority this year...
There is no "Mr. Irving" to profit from all this. A round-faced studious onetime parachutist named Leslie L. Irvin, tried to give his name to the company in 1919, but a stenographer added a final "G" on the incorporation papers. Leslie Irvin, now vice president of the company, was in the midst of things last week, at Letchworth on the active British front...
...France, the "voluntary mobilization" of scientists was further advanced. A decree law of May 1938 instituted the High Council of Scientific Research Coordination, which has numerous subsections-e.g., mathematics, biology, hydraulics, chemistry, optics, ballistics, telecommunications-working closely with the Institute for Applying Scientific Research to National Defense. The Council's officers, members and associates include four Nobel Prizewinners-Jean Perrin, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Prince Louis Victor de Broglie...