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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days the War had almost everything that in older and slower wars was more painfully and with more suffering acquired. It had a victory-the march of the German Army to the gates of Warsaw (see p. 18). It had a daring raid-the attack of British airmen on Germany's naval base (see p. 20). It had a cautious advance as French troops fought on German soil for the first time in 70 years (see p. 16). It had its casualties, refugees, wrecks, ruins. It had its propaganda ministries (see p. 25) and it had its first peace...
Several inches shorter, three years older, and much richer than his Producer-Brother David (Gone With the Wind), dumpy, belligerent Myron Selznick at 40 is not only Hollywood's No. 1 agent but one of its most influential individuals. He found his career by accident by getting his friend...
Fritz Mannheimer was typical of Europe's post-War financiers-too ambitious to be dismayed by the wreckage that demoralized older economists, too tough to be rebuffed by the snubs and cuts of a decaying financial aristocracy, slippery enough to make his way through the crevices that appeared as the social structure cracked under war strain. Adroit to the end, he died before his bank closed its doors...
...made him probably the richest publisher in the U. S. Beginning as a Chicago newsboy, he worked into the circulation department of the Hearstpapers, became circulation manager of the old Examiner in 1904. The strong-arm tactics used in Chicago's circulation wars gave Moe Annenberg and his older brother Max (now circulation director of the New York Daily News) a reputation that has dogged them throughout their careers. Moe went from Chicago to Milwaukee, from Milwaukee to New York, where, from 1919 to 1926, he was circulation manager of all Hearst publications. While working for Hearst he began...
Married. Henry Browne Wallace, 23, older son of the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, and Florence Kling, 20, coed; in Des Moines, Iowa...