Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to take an informal poll on the question of easy death, the Sunday Forum of the Akron, Ohio Beacon Journal last month published a melancholy letter signed "Lonely Man." The letter was headed: Would You Kill Yourself If You Had An Incurable Illness...
...bomb over Broadway with her first play, the gripping, scandalous, tragic The Children's Hour. But for years before that New Orleans-born, Manhattan-bred Playwright Hellman had piled up theatrical experience as pressagent and playreader. The Children's Hour was scarcely off on its 20-month run when Lillian Hellman was rushed to Hollywood. There she adapted such cinema hits as The Dark Angel, These Three (the movie version of The Children's Hour), Dead End. In 1936 her second play, Days to Come, opened on Broadway, got a poor press, closed...
...lazing through an amphibian summer on an island off Connecticut, with such friends as Dorothy Parker (who suggested the title for The Little Foxes), Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Kober. But today, awake to the troubled world around her, Lillian Hellman loafs seldom. Militantly antifascist, she two years ago spent a month under bombardment visiting Loyalist Spain, returned to champion its cause all over the U. S. Her next play will be a dramatization of one of the earliest and one of the greatest of social-minded novels, Zola's Germinal...
...vigorous support which Catholic priests and lay groups have given the Chicago Newspaper Guild in its strike against the Herald & Examiner and American has been a matter of grave concern to pious Catholic Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearst-papers. Month ago he reportedly made a vain effort to present in person the Hearst case to George William Cardinal Mundelein. Last week, the American began a series of articles on "The Youth Problem" by well-loved Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization and ranking Chicago hierarch during Cardinal Mundelein's absence in Rome...
...alarming that Harvard's President James Bryant Conant last month devoted much of his annual report to it, the Rockefeller General Education Board gave $520,000 to a commission* to study it and throughout the land teacher training is undergoing an overhauling. Last week Cornell University launched a significant new teacher training plan...