Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emotional experience. Director John Cromwell has succeeded in maintaining throughout a high level of tension which occasionally breaks out in explosive dramatic shocks. The mood, even in its happy moments one of ominous fatalism, is set by Charles Boyer with his gloomy portrayal of Pepe le Moko, the underworld ruler. Hedy Lamarr, whose haunting mystery is the answer to an unexpressed desire in every man's subconscious, also stands with Mr. Boyer the test of the long, electric close-ups. The picture is notable for its attention to those details which aid in heightening the effect:--the irony...
...Bandar Shahpur, on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
...first time in Portugal's history its ruler last week visited her overseas empire. After calls at the tiny, off-Africa islands of Principe and Sao Tome, a steamer carrying Portuguese President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona steamed into the harbor of Loanda, largest city in Portugal's West African colony of Angola. But to the population of Angola the big news last week was not the official visit but the more important fact that in Lisbon tight-fisted Premier and Finance Minister Dr. Antonio Oliveira Salazar had finally loosened up and granted the neglected colony...
Died. Prince Franz Paul I, 85, who four months ago abdicated as ruler of the 65 square mile principality of Liechtenstein, which snuggles between Greater Germany and Switzerland; at Castle Felsburg, Czechoslovakia; after a lengthy illness...
Steadily growing in Leftist political, if not military stature is genial, bald, double-chinned General José Miaja, "Savior of Madrid,'' ruler of Southern Leftist Spain, said to have been converted to Communism. His resounding declaration-"Madrid will be the tomb of Fascism"-became one of the slogans of that city's heroic defense. Mysteriously killed in battle was history's first Anarchist general, Buenaventura Durruti, organizer of the first Anarchist militia. Also passed out of the picture is the brains of Madrid's defense-42-year-old, tall, Austrian-born, Canadian-naturalized Emilio Kleber...