Word: spain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seriously considered. By President McKinley's dispensation Hugh Drum went directly into the Army as a second lieutenant at 18-because his Army father was killed at San Juan. And the third man considered-Major General DeWitt, who now commands the War College-enlisted in the war against Spain...
...Senate on propaganda,suggesting that plenty of it was afoot today as in 1914-17 to draw theU. S. abroad. Said he: '"We cannot escape part in it if war comes to Europe.' Why does this thought persist and grow . . .? Norway, Sweden,Denmark, Holland, Switzerland and Spain stayed out of the last war. There were 55,000,000 people living in democracies at the very door of the war in Europe. If they could stay out . . . why must we even lend ourselves to the thought that we cannot stay out? . . ." Gerald Nye did not give his opinion...
...Chamberlain's excuse for the change in plans was simply that the British Admiralty had decided that the Repulse was too valuable to be spared so far from home. There were, however, other more specific reasons. A German war fleet was last week prowling off the coast of Spain. In that fleet were two 10,000-ton "pocket battleships" which, in case of war, would make ideal commerce raiders. In all the world's navies there are but five ships that could catch and sink a pocket battleship and one of them is the Repulse. The others...
...Time for Comedy Olivier is cast as the author of a drama about a youth who supposedly dies fighting for Leftist Spain. The boy's scientist father, comforted by "messages" from him, turns spiritualist. The boy turns up, unrecognizable because of face wounds, commits suicide rather than disillusion his father. In the play, the playwright ends by throwing this drama into the wastebasket. But Warner Bros, (discovered Leonard Lyons, unwearied whitewing of Manhattan's night spots) want to buy it for Paul Muni...
...perhaps transferring his own qualms) treats of a writer of comedies who wonders whether he shouldn't be more serious-minded. This beautiful notion is implanted in him by an uplifted, though agreeably carnal, society woman, and involves him in a mess of ideas about immortality and Loyalist Spain. It takes all the skill of the playwright's clever, patient wife (Katharine Cornell) to give his plays, and her life, a happy ending...