Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excellent photography, direction, and acting contribute to the general merit of the picture. In its moving panorama, such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, and a certain Mr. Boswell all occupy the stage for one brief moment. The action, it must be admitted, is slow, but never does interest lag. Only two defects can be noticed--a drawn out conclusion tending toward anti-climax, and the uncertain Margaret Mitchell ending...
...same connection, Dr. Samuel H. Cross, associate professor of Slavic Languages, will give a free, public lecture tomorrow evening on Pushkin after One Hundred Years,' at 8 o'clock in Emerson Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
...Kent, Conn, one Samuel McWhinnie, 42, was charged with burglary for having broken into a shed on the Hyde Park estate of Miss Ellen Roosevelt, cousin of the President, and stealing four small sailboat models which Franklin Roosevelt carved with his own hands...
First Lord of the British Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare made it perfectly clear to the House that these five human barnacles of His Majesty's Navy had been scraped off without ceremony, sympathy or public trial. Said Sir Samuel: "His Majesty's Government would have preferred to put charges to the men, but that would have betrayed and therefore made useless the secret service of His Majesty's Government. The evidence has been checked and counterchecked many ways, finally by a committee of high civil servants...
...bankers begged him to hurry home and assume three basic posts in the ravaged Insull empire. Back to a dreary city in 14 days came James Simpson from India. He resigned as chairman of Marshall Field & Co., in which he holds more stock than even the Field estate, replaced Samuel Insull as chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co., Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois and Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. A $450,000,000 company, Commonwealth Edison has a virtual monopoly on electric power sales in Chicago's 210 square miles, has never missed paying a dividend. Public Service...