Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This began the strangest director-star relationship in the history of U. S. cinema. In a few months was brought about the transformation of Mrs. Sieber. From an awkward, frail girl, visibly awed by the new world into which fate had thrust her, she became the purveyor of calculated glamour, icy and generous by turns, distant, temperamental, mysterious. Part of this was the result of coaching by von Sternberg, part of it the changes in her own ego wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished...
When, therefore, the nations assemble, the recent amicable relationship must be embodied in definite form. The first in this program should be a sincere effort to make a multi-lateral document of the Monroe Doctrine. Certainly our self-as-sumed responsibility as a querelous, often mistaken, and sometimes violently active "governor" of this hemisphere has proved more than we want and probably more than we can cope with today. It is true that a multi-lateral convention will involve a certain measure of limited, mutual responsibility. That, however, is to be expected, and any sign of the United States demanding...
...much an autobiography as an autobiographical defense of his Catholicism, Gilbert Keith Chesterton's memoirs, completed three months before his death last June, are most interesting when he neglects his theme and describes his relationship with his rivals. Born May 29, 1874, into an honest and respectable middle-class family, Chesterton lived long enough to admire even the hypocrisies of his Victorian household. His father was a real estate agent and surveyor, an ironic individual who reminded his son of a character by Dickens. One of the elder Chesterton's idiosyncrasies was to pretend that he knew...
Neither corporate nor union solidarity is easy to create in Detroit with its 1,500,000 population. Plants and workers are scattered throughout the city with no geographical relationship whatever. But the automobile industry has been moving out of Detroit into the surrounding countryside, partly because of the city's high taxes, partly because of a general tendency toward decentralization. Detroit in the automobile sense now covers an immense area including cities like Flint, Lansing, Toledo, Windsor...
...same time there will be discussion on the relationship of the Harvard Student Union with the national office...