Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become one of the most devastating and effective propaganda pictures ever made. Actress Neagle's Nurse Cavell is much as history made her, a lonely Englishwoman running a nursing home in Brussels when the German war machine spreads over Belgium. When the grandson of her friend Mme Rappard (May Robson) escapes from the Germans and with her help gets away to The Netherlands, she thinks her duty lies with others like him. With the help of Mme Rappard, the resourceful Countess Mavon (Edna May Oliver) and a bargeman's wife (Zasu Pitts), she organizes a large-scale underground...
Born. To Harold LeClair Ickes, 65, U. S. Secretary of the Interior, and Jane Dahlman Ickes, 26, whom he married secretly in Ireland in May 1938, three years after his first wife died in an automobile accident; a 7-pound, 11-ounce son, her first child, his fourth; in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Secretary Ickes had his parental jitters in an emergency Cabinet meeting in Washington...
Italy's great exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci material at Milan this summer (TIME, May 29) put a wild thought in the head of a visitor named Carlo Noya. Signor Noya went home to the coastal town of Savona. He had an old picture at home and to him it looked strangely like some of the Leonardos he had seen. He fetched it to Milan, showed it to such experts as Adolfo Venturi. It did not take the experts long to know it for the work of "a great Tuscan master of the Renaissance." nor much longer to announce last...
...proportion was 9% of $2,000,000,000; World War I almost quadrupled U. S. exports and by 1919 U. S. tonnage increased 60%.) Hence the U. S. merchant fleet of 27,470 vessels (gross tonnage: 14,632,000 tons compared to 12,907,300 tons in 1919) may not be able to keep goods from piling up on U. S. wharves. Not yet seriously affected, U. S. ports were last week in the following condition...
Other correspondents may be lucky enough to send such stories of this war, but it is not likely, for, 24 hours after war began last week, censorship had clamped down over Europe. In Berlin the Army Command announced that no foreign correspondents would be allowed to stay at the front and that all those now in military areas must leave. War communiqués would be issued once a day. From time to time groups of correspondents would be taken "wherever activities were especially interesting." Berlin censored all dispatches, but correspondents reported no evidence that they had been suppressed...