Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poles in Danzig there was some encouragement in the arrival at Gdynia, the all-Polish port only twelve miles northwest of Danzig, of Polish artillery. And just to keep the record straight the Polish Government reiterated its oft-repeated firm stand: "Any attempt to alter the present state of affairs in Danzig will have as an immediate effect immediate action by the Polish military forces, which at present are in a state of readiness...
...production was at a standstill, the Government was almost powerless, and Republicans and Legitimists were cutting each other's throats. No one expected him to last any longer than his short- lived predecessors, but the Count surprised everybody, hung on for more than ten years, set an endurance record for Premiers in post-War Europe. The first problem facing him was what to do about the Emperor Charles's attempt to regain the Hungarian throne. Republicanism ran against the Count's aristocratic grain, but he knew that a Habsburg restoration would provoke Allied intervention. So he approved...
Next day Publisher Chandler started a private investigation, learned to his sorrow that his crusading editor's personal record was bad. Henry Ewald resigned and left Mobile. But Publisher Chandler kept up his campaign. Government investigators went to Mobile, laid their evidence before U. S. District Attorney Francis Harrison Inge. District Attorney Inge got indictments against the four men who had trapped and photographed Editor Ewald, and the woman who had invited him to her room. Also indicted was a young assistant circuit solicitor (State's attorney), Bart B. Chamberlain Jr.. who had boasted publicly that...
...Chief Clayton Bishop of the Onset (Mass.) Fire Department: the 130-mile outboard motorboat race down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City; in 3 hr., 11 min., 22 sec.; breaking the record for Class B boats (16-h.p. motors, 100-lb. hulls); and setting another record by becoming the first driver to win the race twice...
...Hollywood had no production finger in any important Broadway pie. But unlike last season, it paid some fancy prices for hits. Abe Lincoln in Illinois was sold to Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Co. Inc. on a cash and royalty basis that may come to over $300,000, set a record. The American Way was sold to Gordon for $250,000. Setting a precedent, The Philadelphia Story was sold to Katharine Hepburn (its star) before it ever opened on Broadway...