Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hungarian troops and planes invaded Slovakia. Immediate objective was the important Ung Valley railroad connecting Hungary with Poland. Hungary's larger ambition is eventually to gain control of all Slovakia, which used to be in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Adolf Hitler, having just assumed a 25-year responsibility for...
The Cabinet itself was split by the issue. Lord Halifax, Minister of Health Walter Elliot, President of the Board of Education Earl De La Warr and Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, were for no more appeasement. But Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and Home Secretary...
Prime Minister King's statement also focused attention on the appalling state of Canadian defense, to say nothing of offense. Canada has always relied on both British and U. S. Navies for help. She has less than 300 military airplanes, scores of which are Royal Air Force discards. Her...
The story is in the title. Katharine acted as a child, as a schoolgirl, in art theatre groups, in stock; at length-and ever more triumphantly-on Broadway. As a neatly blown-up scrapbook of her career, I Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the...
One of the few dislikes to which Actress Cornell owns up is a dislike for the star system. It delighted her to exchange "Katharine Cornell in-" for "Katharine Cornell Presents." All the same, after Katharine Cornell came brilliantly of age, at the end of 1924, with Candida, she reveled in...