Word: holt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week closed another notorious shipwreck scandal, that of the S. S. Vestris, which went down in a storm with no persons off the Virginia Capes seven years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Decided a Federal Court in Manhattan: The disaster was an "act of God" for which Lamport & Holt Line Ltd., operators, and Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., owners, need pay no more than the $500,000 they have already given claimants...
...defend excavators everywhere by editorially calling the Gauley Bridge furore "fantastic bunk." On the other hand, "The time has come," declared that journal, "to bring out authoritatively all the facts of silicosis hazards." When the inquest was petering out for lack of wind last week young Senator Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia appeared before the House Committee with a commonsense statement: "This was and is American industry's 'Black Hole of Calcutta.' I have had first-hand knowledge of it for several years-despite a combine of big-business silence. Unhappily, nothing can be done...
...made Dictatorship what it is today. Currently the nearest approach to such an analysis is Mussolini's Italy by Dr. Herman Finer of the University of London, a useful work since its author has just spent a year in Italy and tried to be fair (Holt...
Storm over the Andes (Universal) tells an improbable story about an implausible group of wildcat aviators who help Bolivia win a fictitious war-in-the-air over the Gran Chaco. It inevitably portrays a cocky, ready-fisted individual (Jack Holt) whose general unpleasantness includes the fact that he can fly better than his comrades. When Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition...
...hand to help along the cause of church peace & unity were such irenic Southern Bishops as John Monroe Moore of Dallas, William Newman Ainsworth of Macon, Arthur James Moore of San Francisco, Paul Bentley Kern of Greensboro, such irenic Northern Bishops as Frederick DeLand Leete of Omaha and Edwin Holt Hughes of Washington...