Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German air-raid expert for advice on how to build shelters. German "tourists" swarmed over Sweden, especially around the mining districts. Six "philosophy students" were arrested studying the terrain around the fortress at Boden, strongest in northern Europe. Two German agents were nabbed for espionage at Eskilstuna ("Sheffield of Sweden"), another at the gold-mining town of Boliden. A German journalist and photographer named Viese was found to have supplied a Berlin picture agency with 60 detailed photographs of Swedish mining centres and harbors. In 1938 police unmasked a huge Nazi spy network, but no details were published...
...this point the Reynaud-Chamberlain mob, whose guts Mussolini despises, got tired of greasing Italy with talk about cooperation and compromise in the Mediterranean. In Sheffield one of Neville ("Hardware") Chamberlain's most formidable torpedoes, Economic Warrior Ronald Cross, turned on the heat. "We are plain-dealing and plain-speaking people," he said, "and we should like to know where we stand with Italy." If Italy is neutral, said he flatly, she will have to act like...
...guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely Lady Queenie (Margarette Whitten), the hotel's beautician...
...woman customer went into such hysterics she had to be led out. On hand was Producer Zanuck's assistant, Poloist Aidan Roark. But he was blacked out by the burlier presence of the picture's villain, enormously popular colored Cinemactor Maceo B. Sheffield. Also present was Producer Friedrich's Scripter Dana Burnett. The surges of surflike laughter told both scouts that the canny Parson Friedrich had scored again...
...Senior Nominating Committee is headed by Edward C. K. Read, with Arthur Cantor, John E. Crane, Paul Olum, Ernest J. Sargeant, B. Sheffield West, and H. Holton Wood, all Seniors, assisting him. For the Juniors Roger S. Schafer '41 has on his committee John M. London and Francis M. Simpson, Jr., both Juniors...