Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shaw coming out of the schoolhouse one winter afternoon, when Stan Janowski's sleigh is waiting. Heat Lightning (Warner). This small investigation of goings-on at a desert gas-station is sharper and more honest than most one-room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route from Reno to the coast, of two nervous, overdressed divorcees with their languid chauffeur (Frank McHugh ) ; an itinerant bankrobber's bashful greeting to a brash female hitchhiker; a Mexican peasant apologizing for the Ford which contains...
Henceforth André Citroën will confine his automotive genius to production, leaving policies to his financial betters. Meantime an army of auditors swarmed over the Citroën ledgers. In Le Soir a realistic financial observer remarked: "It is impossible now to get any exact idea of the company's condition. ... In prosperous days, accounts meant little because increased demand and prices covered everything...
Above Schneider-Creusot stands the Comite des Forges and above this all-powerful iron and steel organization stands the shadowy figure of Frangois de Wendel. M. de Wendel is regent of the Bank of France. He is a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He owns most of Le Journal des Debats. His international connections during the War were so powerful that, when the Germans took the French iron mines in the Briey basin, the French Army was forbidden to bombard the source of a great part of the ore Germany consumed during the War. With all Governments as their...
...Le Bourget Airport, Outside Paris, Mar. 4--Anxiety grew tonight for Dieudonne Coste, French air ace and transatlantic flier, missing on a flight to Copenhagen, Denmark...
Foils: Chosa A. Fujino defeated Day (C), 4-0, Culbertson (C), 5-2, and Epstein (C), 5-1; William F. Gerber defeated Culbertson (C), 5-0, and Day (C), 5-4; Epstein (C) defeated William B. Berssenbrugge, 5-2, and Gerber, 5-1; Day (C) defeated Laval J. Le Boeuf, 5-4; Culbertson (C) defeated Le Boeuf...