Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week in the little French village of La Napoule in the Alpes Maritimes, townspeople and fishermen streamed across the Place Henry Clews, through the great gate of the Chateau de la Napoule, to the carved and vaulted mausoleum within. They went to pay their respects to their benefactor, buried just two years. Four thousand miles away, in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, some of Henry Clews's countrymen also paid their respects, by viewing a memorial exhibition of his sculpture...
...history, the leaders, members of the ultranationalist, pro-Axis Black Dragon Society, led the procession to a military shrine. Two hours later the leaders were back to do it all over again for newsreel photographers. When the demonstrators finally dispersed they left a wreath on the Embassy's gate with the inscription: BRITAIN IS DEAD...
...half months, attendance totaled 13,500,000, about half the number Whalen figured. Big for world's fairs, it wasn't big enough for the biggest. Into executive session went major industrial exhibitors (investment: $35,000,000) and voted to ask the Fair to cut the gate to 50?. Concessionaires, whose girl shows have failed to turn the trick at the tills, went further. Their demand: a 25? admission fee at night...
...ports, Gdynia and Danzig, are the air and sun of our national life and the basis of our political and economic independence," said the 72-year-old former professor of electrochemistry who has been Poland's President for the last 13 years. "Through this narrow gate, through a small strip of seacoast, is done three-quarters of our business with foreign nations. This is our free unhindered way to all the other countries in the world and the more they are menaced the stronger is our determination to defend Pomorze and the seacoast...
...from the Tennessee mountains named Alvin Cullum York singlehanded killed 20 German soldiers, captured 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to rugged Fentress County as No. 1 U. S. war hero. Last week Sergeant York, fat, arthritic and peace-loving, visited San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair, confessed: "I don't know what the last war was about...