Word: newsfront
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the departmental heading LIFE on the American Newsfront, was depicted the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Superimposed on this aerial view was what no camera can yet show: The architect's drawing of the island which is to be built for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. Other featured items of picture-news were Louisiana's "Moses" foundling; the spectacular death of Minnesota's Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, who drove his automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill...