Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well-heeled pioneer family-Cleveland has a Bulkley Building, a Bulkley Boulevard-he graduated from Harvard in 1902, two years before Franklin Roosevelt, with whom he worked on the undergraduate daily Crimson. From Harvard Law School he returned to Cleveland to practice corporation law, manage his inherited real estate, and indulge a gentleman's interest in low-tariff Democratic politics which got him into Congress in 1911. Once there, he blossomed out as a protégé of Virginia's Carter Glass, who picked him as his House lieutenant in the fight for the Federal Reserve...
...prisoners' box at Barcelona sat seven Ninists. The seven and Nin were charged, as members of his P.O.U.M., or Workers Party for Marxist Unification, with high treason, espionage and "ominous activities." As an example of these the long indictment charged: "They provoked a real revolution in Catalonia [in May 1937], fought against the police and even managed to make an army division in which they had been carrying on their criminal work abandon the front." What had happened was that the extremely independent P.O.U.M. militia had refused to become absorbed in the new, unified and reformed People...
...Lloyd's of London and Marie Antoinette. In a supporting cast which includes Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce and Director Miles Mander, drafted for the role of Disraeli, the ablest member is Producer Zanuck's latest Continental star. Less mannered than unfortunate little Simone Simon, Annabella (real name: Suzanne Charpentier) chatters intelligibly, looks pretty in gamine or Empire costume and chokes to death affectingly during the zobah-hah. Most impressive shot: cave-in of a canal-side cliff dynamited by Turkish guerrillas...
Most of Chicago's subway schemes have proposed leveling the elevated loop and the uneven scale of property values it sustains. Successfully opposing such plans have been the real-estate and business interests entrenched inside the "Loop." But last week a plan that contained no threat to the "Loop" was on its way to fulfillment. Signed by President Roosevelt was a PWA allotment of 18 million lend-spend dollars, representing 45% of the cost of a $40,000,000 7.6-mile subway system which Chicago must start building before January 1, and must have substantially completed by June...
Married. Martha Raye (real name: Marjorie Yvonne Reed), 22, trumpetvoiced cinema comedienne; and David Rose, 29-year-old composer; in Mexico. Miss Raye's divorce from Hollywood Make-up Artist Hamilton ("Buddy") Westmore became final last month...