Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Sept. 4, reports, Thomas Edmund Dewey "rigorously followed Rules 5, 6, 7 of How To Become President," but what about Owosso's traffic rules? See cut, "Dewey in Owosso," p. 13, which pictures Manhattan's Galahad of law and order apparently walking through a red light...
After an announcement by excitable Samuel Goldwyn that he had abandoned Raffles so that Actor David Niven could rejoin the Highland Light Infantry, work on Raffles was hastily resumed when the British Consulate in Los Angeles thought that Actor Niven would not be needed for at least 30 days. Only other Britishers on the active reserve list (liable to immediate call) were John Loder, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and the Earl of Warwick, whose Hollywood name is Michael Brooke. Only volunteer to turn up at the Consulate was Actor Alan Mowbray, 43, who was put to work listing other British subjects...
Affable Negro John Henry Lewis, ex-light-heavyweight U. S. boxing champion, who once hoped to earn enough money fighting to become a preacher without having to depend on a preacher's salary, took a job as liquor salesman...
Heavy Industries carried the biggest label: "War Babies." Bethlehem Steel, prize baby of World War II, was up 30%, Big Steel up 31%. The 8-11% rise of Westinghouse and General Electric was credited to their varied electrical wares-from light bulbs to battleship machinery...
Three recent books that light up the background of Europe...