Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children, and a Jewish soap manufacturer (Joseph Cawthorne ) lets his wife, niece and cousins run his programs. Twenty Million Sweet lie arts mostly concerns a fatuous singing waiter (Dick Powell) who becomes a celebrated crooner. Discovered singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze'' by a brash, noisy scout (Pat O'Brien), the waiter fails dismally at his audition, later gets another chance when aided by a soap-hour singer (Ginger Rogers). The two love but are separated by O'Brien who does not wish to alienate Powell's 20,000,000 admirers. When Ginger Rogers...
...Hugh Bradley, was an Irishman who had fought in the Civil War. Young "Ed'' first worked as a roller in a steel mill. He quit that job, went West. There legend records him as a gold miner, cowboy, friend of Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, a scout for General Nelson A. Miles in his campaigns against the Apaches. He served his apprenticeship in the gambling and horse-racing business in Texas and at Juarez, Mexico, before starting a bookmaking partnership. After seasons at Hot Springs, St. Louis and Memphis tracks he branched...
...lovers. Count Kardak was a wise and charming old sybarite who should have known better. In fact he did, but how could he resist the idea of inviting Renee to his remote little principality for the wedding of his earnest, dull and handsome heir, Max, to the buxom girl scout duchess of the neighboring principality? In the ensuing battle of wits with wits and with with brawn, Count Anton looked on helplessly at some amazing situations...
...Theodore Roosevelt, 46. A gallant, much-decorated lieutenant-colonel in the A.E.F., he returned to help organize the American Legion, serve two terms in New York's Assembly, three years (1921-24) as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. To help boys and Negroes he became a Boy Scout national executive committeeman, a trustee of Washington's Howard University. In 1929 President Hoover made him Governor of Puerto Rico. Conscientious, hardworking, sympathetic, he did his best to improve natives' health and prosperity, became as popular a governor as the island had ever had. He showed the same spirit...
What Lord Baden-Powell did not know was that one set of German scouts, the German Boy Scout Association, was in fact attached to his organization and that the Hitler Youth leader, Baldur von Schirach, had passed it by. Last week von Schirach announced that it, too, "is no longer warranted," dissolved it and forbade its leader. Eberhard Plewe, to conduct further work among boys. The last of the German Scouts laid away their fleur-de-lis Scout badges. Presently they will be issued the swastika emblems of Hitler Youth...