Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actress Rogers demanded the right to supervise the script of Kanin's first A production...
...pacifist is a person who, on religious or moral grounds, objects to all wars, defensive or offensive. A conscientious objector is one who reserves to himself the right to decide whether to support his country in a particular war. When the U. S. entered the World War, more than 64,000 citizens applied, on grounds of conscience, for exemption from combat service. But fewer than 4,000 went further, demanded exemption from noncombatant duty. Most of these were sent to farms and camps; 486 were sentenced to prison, 17 to death. (But no one was executed...
...Professor Wodzicki shipped two storks from their summer nests near Butyny, Poland, to Berlin, where they were loosed with magnets strapped to their heads. Idea was that the interference from this headgear would prevent the birds from taking their bearings by terrestrial magnetism. They got back to Butyny all right, despite the magnets. That was not deemed conclusive enough to rule out all possibility of magnetic guidance, however, so the professor sent six more Polish storks to London this spring, and they too wore magnetic hats when set free...
Last week U. S. Drama, Inc. put on Irish night over MBS, featuring William J. Bailey, the Singing Fireman, rendering Rose of Tralee, and famed ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, the unhappy Democratic warrior, who pitched right into Communism...
...Until last week Wall Street wags were describing 1939's spring bull market as the one that walked away from the steel stocks and left them right where (some below) the last bear market had flung them. Last week the market ended its sorriest month in 18 years (11,967,390 shares traded), was slipping back toward depressed steels: after the rail stocks failed to Dow-confirm June 10's industrial high of 140.14 (TIME, June 26), the industrials had fallen more than 10 points...