Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This well-organized display of violence and threats was one more Japanese way of telling Britain that she had better "rectify her conception of East Asia." It was carefully timed to coincide with the first of Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita's and British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie's conferences to settle the month-old Tientsin blockade. At the first meeting between the two, Mr. Arita began by asking for an "accord of policy"-I. e., a recognition of Japan's "new order in East Asia." However the conference ends, Tokyo newspapers rejoiced over a preliminary Japanese...
Tops among Hollywood writer-director teams for many a year were hairy little Frank Capra, who used to be a Mack Sennett gagman, and baldish Robert Riskin, who got into the movie business when a shirt manufacturer he was working for decided to take a flier in shorts. During the six years they worked together for Columbia, Capra & Riskin turned out a dazzling string of critical and box-office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share...
When Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones began the Central City festival (with Lillian Gish in Camille), he frowned on sideshows, drinking shindigs in the Teller House bar. Present producer-director of the festival is Frank St. Leger, Chicago musician. Last week square dances, tintype studios, night-club entertainers flourished once more in Central City. With The Yeomen running up the best box office in recent years, likelihood was that the festival would henceforth stick to plushy musical shows...
...laws breed litigation, and a great invisible subsidy of the New Deal has been enjoyed by the legal profession. No one knows this better than Lawyer Robert Houghwout Jackson, now Solicitor General. Painfully consistent in his New Dealism was he last week when, addressing the Junior Bar Conference (lawyers under 36) at San Francisco, he put his profession on notice as follows...
...still brilliantly in the running was Lieutenant Robert M. Stanley of Pensacola's naval air base. Fortnight ago he had upped the U. S. altitude record to 13,400 feet (world record: German Captain Walter Drechsel's 23,196 feet). Last week, skilfully riding the air currents, he darted deliberately into just such a cumulus as had made Udo Fischer abandon his plane, bettered his own record by 3,194 feet...