Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Mr. du Pont hurried to a telephone, called up the cartoonist at the Record of fice, asked for the original. Canny Cartoonist Doyle, whose pictorial presentations of the du Fonts have hitherto been distinctly unflattering, assumed that he was talking to a prankster, glibly promised to mail the drawing, did nothing about it. Next morning he read in his paper that Mr. du Pont had actually made the request, hastened to send off the cartoon, with his compliments, for the du Fonts' pleasure...
...Following this feature, LIFE presented four other memorable Camilles: Bernhardt's, Ethel Barrymore's, Theda Bara's, Eva Le Gallienne's. A memorable color shot from the live theatre showed Helen Hayes & Co. in the great third-act pageant of Victoria Regina, eye-filling scene hitherto overlooked by snappers of performance pictures. To LIFE'S editors Miss Hayes also opened her private albums for her own picture-biography...
...launched the first ship built in North America. There Jonathan Philbrook gained immortality by building the first schooner. There for more than a century was the centre of the U. S. shipbuilding industry. But in Bath today there is only one active shipyard-the famed Bath Iron Works. Hitherto a tightly-held little company, Bath Iron Works last week became a publicly-owned corporation. A banking group headed by Manhattan's Hemphill, Noyes & Co. offered 50,000 shares of new Bath Iron Works stock together with 144,000 shares previously outstanding and owned by the principal stockholders...
...appointment to rule the economy of Germany was that as a soldier he will be deaf to any policy of economy in the Army, Navy or Air Force. The Fatherland, under Göring & Schacht, is headed more than ever for "war-preparation-prosperity." Nephew Herbert Göring, hitherto obscure, now sits at Dr. Schacht's right hand, an important Reichsbank official. As a sop to Nazi radicals, Agriculture Minister Darre was given a seat on a Cabinet committee of six appointed by the Minister-President to carry out Der Vier Jahresplan...
...liberty until the baseball season opens next spring. First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the World Champion New York Yankees offered himself to Hollywood film producers for the role of Tarzan, hitherto acted by Swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. Dressing up in a leopard skin for Manhattan cameramen, Yankee Gehrig threw out a hairy chest, crowed: "It may sound like a screwy idea to you guys but I'm serious. . . . I've always hustled at everything I've taken up. ... I'd give it all I have. I'd even wrestle lions." Cornered by news...