Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt quickly disowned personal responsibility for a fortified Guam. He simply conferred with Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee, let that gentleman introduce a bill authorizing $5,000,000 to dredge the harbor at Apra, make the island usable for planes. His real purpose was clarified by his secretariat, which approvingly referred to Columnist Walter Lippmann: "Congress should authorize the fortification of Guam, and then the State Department should invite the Japanese to discuss the question." (A U. S. threat to fortify Guam helped to win Japan's agreement to the 5-5-3 naval ratio...
...spite of all this, Sir Bernard thinks the Bedouins who live in Aden are lucky. Last week he let them in on some centenary pageantry-a ball, concerts, a show of arms, a special issue of postage stamps. Sixteen sultans from the outlying protectorate paraded in splendor. One real gift, worth waiting a century for in disease-ridden Aden: $30,000 for a Maternity and Child Welfare Centre...
...Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch of the Navy as the real hero. So they escape some of the soggier romance of Boy and Girl. The scene where the sub-chaser sneaks through the mine-filled fog and destroys an enemy submarine at its base is very well done. An unworthy companion is "The Jones Family" who are down on the farm...
Last week, with his usual tartness, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas took a fling at directors in general and McKesson & Robbins directors in particular. Plumping for responsible paid directors who would give real attention to their jobs, he urged U. S. corporations to go out and find men who would represent stockholders rather than management or banks. Although there might be plenty of practical problems in staffing directorates with paid "outsiders" (not part of the management) who had the time to know intimately the business they directed, Mr. Douglas said pertinently...
Marriage Revealed. Vera Zorina (real name: Eva Brigitta Hartwig), 22, Norwegian-born ballet dancer (I Married An Angel, Goldwyn Follies) ; and George Balanchine (real name: Georgei Melitonovitch Balanchivadze), 35, crack Russian choreographer, balletmaster of the American Ballet; Christmas Eve, on Staten Island...