Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gangster shoots a schoolboy whom he finds skulking in his bedroom, the schoolboys form a secret society for revenge. Here Director DeMille, more up to date in method than in ideology, stole a few ideas from Nerofilm's M. Whistling bars from "Yankee Doodle" as a code signal, the members of the secret society creep up on Garrett, gag and bind him with adhesive tape while he is having his shoes shined. A high-school girl (Judith Allen) entertains his bodyguard while the boys take Garrett to a deserted factory, try him in a kangaroo court, exact his confession...
...Martin and his wife had faced a lot of things together, finally the poorhouse; when they found they were to be separated they promised they would signal each other with their lights, and were told it was against the rules...
...sedan started up with a jerk, shot down Wolf Road. The taxi driver and his passenger leaped from their cab, began dancing up & down in the road, waving their arms at an army airplane overhead. The airplane picked up their signal, nosedived. Instantly along Wolf Road, down which the sedan was racing, squad after squad of armed policemen appeared from ambush. A barricade was flung across the road, cutting off the sedan's escape. The airplane was swooping down, into machine gun range. The sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head...
...worked so well that when in 1914 the Rockefellers got into trouble with their Colorado Fuel & Iron strike, John D. Rockefeller Jr. took Arthur Brisbane's advice: he borrowed Pennsylvania's Ivy Lee. Since young Ivy Lee was new to a new game, his success was not signal. He made the grave error of accepting and circulating as true all facts & figures given him by the mine operators. Later he was revealed by a U. S. commission as having drafted a strike memorandum for the Governor of Colorado to send, as his own, to President Wilson. However...
...time he rode his "midnight ride." Here the party will have an opportunity to view articles belonging to Revere in a setting the same as it was when he occupied the house. Nearby is Old South Church, the oldest church biulding now standing in Boston. From its steeple the signal lanterns of Paul Revere were hung. The interior of the church remains the same as it was in the Revolutionary period...