Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They Won't Forget (Warner Bros.). On Confederate Memorial Day (April 26) the little town of Flodden, Ga., takes a half holiday. In the town park, a handful of tottering Civil War veterans doze and chatter while they wait to march in the parade. At the Buxton Business College classes are dismissed early and the school's principal is surprised when one of the girls, pretty Mary Clay (Lana Turner) comes back to the classroom to get a vanity case she has forgotten. At the town cemetery, the show-going old Governor pays sincere tribute to the dead...
Nearly two years before French workers won the 40-hr. week under Socialist Premier Leon Blum (TIME, June 29, 1936 et ante), Italian workers had received the 40-hr, week under Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini. Joseph Stalin has given Soviet toilers a system of Five-Year-Planned vacations and holiday trips. German workers are provided by Adolf Hitler with lavish "Strength Through Joy" cruises on specially constructed Nazi liners built for the exclusive fun of the proletariat. Last week in Rome some of the strides which European workmen are making toward an easier and more varied life-irrespective of what...
...summer holiday of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako was cut short last week by fierce fighting in Soviet Siberia and in North China. Their Majesties hurried from the seaside back to a highly excited Tokyo in which Premier Prince Konoye repeatedly held midnight cabinet councils with members of the General Staff. Japanese businessmen, as usual, could not find out whether Japanese soldiers had been fighting at the command of their Government or because their local Japanese commanders had decided that the local opportunities for getting in a few blows were too good to miss last week...
...pleas to 'play with fireworks' is a sobering one indeed. I cannot urge too strongly that every possible precaution be taken to make the figures for 1937 prove that at last we have had a safe and sane Fourth of July." Preliminary reports of the July 4th holiday weekend showed 437 deaths in 46 States: 104 drownings, 247 traffic deaths, 86 others including six from fireworks. New Jersey's authorities hoped to provide a salutary example to other States by threatening to jail (90 days) and fine ($100) any one who sold or even possessed any kind...
...Playhouse. Mt. Kisco's and Westport's weekly bills this summer will be something for cinemaddicts as well as theatregoers to see. Henry Fonda will enact The Virginian, Phillips Holmes and Frances Farmer will do The Petrified Forest, following the opening of Eva LeGallienne, on three-year holiday from the Manhattan stage, in Mirandolina...