Word: known
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mark my vote for continuing the "Current & Choice" item in your Cinema Department. Reference to this feature has saved me many a time from the 20th Century form of Spanish Inquisition known as sitting four hours in a theatre in vain expectation of entertainment...
...gorge of Newfoundland's Humber River. Water and weather were perfect but Fisherman Roosevelt landed no salmon after trying all day. Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson got the party's one fish and Mr. Roosevelt issued a statement: "His unique specimen, while not the fattest known, excels all I have seen in my long experience. It is, in fact, the Adonis of salmon. Its regular features, its pink complexion and its rippling muscles make it a fit comrade for the General...
...personnel: Able Edward R. Stettinius Jr., young (38) whitehaired chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.; American Telephone & Telegraph's President Walter S. Gifford; Sears Roebuck's Brigadier General Robert E. Wood, who, as Acting Quartermaster General, directed U. S. Army purchases in 1918; able though little known John Lee Pratt, a retired vice president of General Motors; M. I. T.'s Physicist Karl T. Compton; Brookings Institution's Economist Harold G. Moulton...
...rich land of Croatia and the seacoast of Dalmatia stretching down the Adriatic. Eastward lies fertile Hungary, and Rumania with its oil wells, its grain, its ports on the Danube and Black Sea. Northeast, across what had been Czecho-Slovakia, lies Poland and the minute spot on the map known as Danzig, the present battlefield in Europe's war of nerves...
...will have an opportunity to present our side at the trial. I have complete confidence in our courts. . . . I ask only that the public reserve judgment until all of the facts are known. . . . I regret keenly that the Government has found it necessary to place the blot of an indictment on the name of my son, Walter [indicted with two other Annenberg officials on charges of aiding and abetting the alleged evasion...