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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Frederick Tilney, 63, world-famed neurologist, author (The Brain From Ape to Man, The Master of Destiny), longtime (1914-38) professor of neurology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons; of heart disease; at Oyster...
President also of International News Service, International News Photos, Central Press Association and chairman of the board of Hearst Radio, Inc., smiling Joe Connolly is now regarded as his master's favorite. Mr. Connolly shares the editorial motto of all Hearstlings, high and low: "The Chief says-." Last month Hearst editors and writers found themselves with a new editorial attitude when the entire Hearst chain editorially chided the Saturday Evening Post for cartooning President Roosevelt's spending program as an attempt to buy a third term : "It is true that Mr. Roosevelt wants and needs prosperity...
Suspicion of Cuban reserves dates back to an 1880 incident involving an unfortunate Chinese. Digging a water well in Motembo for his master, he presumably stopped for a smoke, at any rate was blown to bits. Promptly forming a company, his master drilled three 900-foot holes on the site, brought in Cuba's first gushers, each producing distillate. Geologists thought this shallow production came from a deeper and much larger reservoir, but drilling equipment was inadequate and nothing further was done about...
...delicate compliment to her, were called Big Berthas.) The Kaiser permitted her husband to change his name to Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach "to ensure at least an appearance of continuity of the Essen dynasty." Krupp von Bohlen built model huts for his workers but he was always "master in his own house"-meaning that he permitted no unions. Between 1914 and 1918 Krupp's profits were magnificent. But when the Kaiser came to address Krupp employes in the last days of the War and cried, "We will fight and hold out to the last man. So help...
...item in MGM's lively series on the homely, 100% American problems of the Hardy Family, Love Finds Andy Hardy rises above the standard not only of its predecessors but also of most of its producer's most expensive features. Its numerous faults-the assiduous overacting of Master Mickey Rooney, frequent instances in which bread-&-butter comedy falls butter side down, a misbegotten musical number for a climax-serve mainly to emphasize its cardinal virtue, of preserving intact the mood and flavor of ordinary life in an ordinary U. S. town. Humor of the Hardy family chronicles...