Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood Producer Walt Disney announced that he had bought the screen rights to Peter Pan; learned that Singers Adriana Caselotti and Harry Stockwell, who sang the roles respectively of Snow White and Prince Charming, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, were suing him for $300,000, as their share of the profits from the sale of phonograph records...
...because it does not treat its subjects as they invariably treated theirs : with style. The scenes from Pinafore and The Mikado are performed with a second-rate stock company's fatal excess of enthusiasm. The picture of Queen Victoria has none of Gilbert & Sullivan's crushing dead-pan mockery of pomp & circumstance. Only Actor Bruce knows the secret, plays Gilbert with a polished griffness that the old boy himself would have acknowledged with a snort of delight...
...them proud. The final awards that ended the century-old quarrel between Bolivia and Paraguay over the title to the Chaco Boreal* were made in the names of the Presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay and the U.S. And no one could fail to contrast the operation of Pan-American peace machinery with that recently observed in Munich...
...straight line was arbitrarily drawn to indicate the two borders, the controversy continued and in 1932 it burst into a declared war. No less than 18 attempts at arbitration of the dispute failed. The League of Nations once imposed an arms embargo, the U. S. followed suit. Finally the Pan-American Conference of 1934 at Montevideo took up the question, arranged a truce a year later, then began its long, drawn-out negotiations...
WASHINGTON--The United States will use the forthcoming Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru, as a forum to combat the spread of fascist and Nazi influence in Latin America through the initiation of one of the greatest campaigns to strengthen democracy in the world's history, it was indicated tonight...