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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inventor Thomas Alva Edison having abandoned his annual intelligence tests for high school graduates,* the Central Press Association-aided by Instructor Sabina Hart Connolly of Yale's Department of Education-undertook last month to select the nation's six brightest boys. Before being sent on a trip to Italy last week, the boys were received at a Manhattan banquet by Senator Royal Samuel Copeland of New York. To see how smart they were, Senator Copeland began popping questions. "Who is Adolf Hitler?" the Senator asked Prizewinner David Englander of Brooklyn...
...POLICEMEN WERE NOT NICE TO ME. . . . CAN GIVE YOU FINE POSITION ACTING IN PICTURES STOP SALARY NO OBJECT. . . . SELZNICK. Zukor sent a friend, who was said to have been paid $50,000, from Chicago to see Selznick. Selznick and Zukor, two of the biggest producers in the industry, started Select Pictures Corp. together...
Selznick put the first electric sign on a Broadway cinema theatre. Zukor took Selznick's name out of Select cinemas, but Selznick had his son Myron, 17, sign up Olive Thomas. She starred in Selznick Pictures devised by him and executed by his son. Zukor and Selznick broke up their partnership over that. Selznick started a new company of his own, got a slogan ("Selznick pictures make happy hours") whose author he reimbursed with a gold watch. Overexpansion ruined the new company. In 1924, Selznick was dabbling in radios. A year later, he was dabbling in Florida real estate...
...desk before Chancellor Brüning went off to the Paris conference. German newspapers were ordered to print "the full text of any statement or correction which the Government orders to be published without any editorial comment in the same edition and on any page that the Government may select." This was to prevent party organs from garbling official decrees to suit their own ends. "Any periodical endangering the public safety" continued the decree, "is liable to confiscation...
...been cleared. She comes of potent family: her brother is Lord Penrhyn and she is related to Viscounts Falmouth and Portman, Sir W. E. Cuthbert-Quilter and Dudley M'Garel-Hogg, Lord Magheramorne. There were editorials in the newspapers and an investigation by the House of Lords Select Committee. Nothing came of it except a brief statement from the Attorney General in the House of Commons...