Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare last week gave M. P.s a realistic peek at Armageddon, described the extensive preparations being made for air attacks on London, expected to be a main objective of enemy bombers. Trenches to provide shelter for 1,500,000 people will be dug in London's parks, declared Sir Samuel, and a ring of hospital tents set up outside the city. Oxford and Cambridge universities will be turned into clearing stations for casualties. Some 30,000,000 sandbags, ready to be filled, have been stacked away in warehouses and 275,000,000 more...
...receive only pictures. Sound must be received on the shortest wave band of a five-band radio set, or sound reception can be added to an A. T. C. set for $15 to $17 additional cost. A. T. C.'s president, founder and owner is former Theatre-Electrician Samuel (''Money") Saltzman...
...Morgan, Herbert Hoover. But never did it forget that it was essentially the literary trustee of its early Boston contributors like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier. Other Atlantic contributors who have made literary history include: Robert Browning, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Henry James Jr., Thomas Hardy, Lafcadio Hearn, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, John Galsworthy, Robert Frost...
Unreported at week's end was the production schedule of United Artists Corporation, owned by retired Stars Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and Producers Samuel Goldwyn and Alexander Korda. A private corporation, United Artists keeps its business largely to itself, occasionally gloats in the trade press over large but unrevealed profits. Month ago the five owners met, split a modest melon...
Nominated by the American Radio Relay League, this 32-year-old father of two last week was selected for the 1937 William Samuel Paley Amateur Radio Award, a sculptural abstraction of aluminum rods and spheres. The Paley Award was founded in"recognition of relief work done by radio amateurs in the 1936 flood disasters. Last year it went to Coudersport, Pa.'s Ham Walter Stiles Jr. He. in March 1936, moved a half ton of radio gear to flood-stricken Renovo, Pa., restored communication contact with the outside world to bring food, clothing and medicine to 4,000 people...