Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violent death of Sidney Smith (TIME, Milestones, Oct. 28), caused me to recall a thrilling ride I once had with the originator of the Gumps...
...thing," said Mr. King, "to pay a courtesy call upon your President." That was a magnificent understatement. What the new-Canadian Premier assuredly thought would be a "pleasant thing" was to do something that looked virtually impossible, to fulfill a prime promise that got him elected last month (TIME, Oct. 21). That promise was to make a reciprocal trade treaty that would restore U. S.-Canadian trade. In 1929, the last full year that Prime Minister King and his Liberal Party were in power, Canada bought $948.000,000 of U. S. goods and sold...
...cost him a kidney and his remaining kidney has now abruptly convinced him that it is Death to go on as Premier. Mr. Hepburn was said to be in acute pain last week, unable to sleep nights. His whirlwind swing around the entire Dominion during the General Election (TIME, Oct. 21) which made him for the first time a continent-wide figure, also overstrained his kidney. And Mitch believed last week that he faces angina pectoris. After the first shock of amazement, Ontario did not quite believe that its Premier will in fact resign after the legislative session next spring...
Aside from Actor Laughton's performance, Mutiny on the Bounty is all that anyone would have any right to expect. The three-volume epic of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island (TIME. Oct. 17, 1932; Jan. 15, 1934; Nov. 5, 1934), written from and for an amazing record, was not designed for neat conversion into a scenario. Despite the efforts of Producer Irving Thalberg, Director Frank Lloyd, three scenarists and $2,000,000 to give it balance, polish and direction, the picture lacks all three. There are intervals when the two hours...
...Association; and Robert F. Ross, 35, director (On Stage, The Distant Shore) ; in Manhattan. Acquitted. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives: of a charge of having violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Law by withholding their films from three St. Louis cinemansions (TIME, Oct. 14); by a Federal court jury; in St. Louis. The case was regarded as a prime test of the legality of the U. S. cinema distributing system. Died. Harold Ellicott Scarborough, 38, until lately European editorial manager and head of the London Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune...