Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irwin and Nicholas Langen arrived one morning at the Royal Palace with 16 suitcases of equipment. One of the King's aides met them, ushered them into the King's 40-ft. by 60-ft. study where, with the active assistance of palace servants and electricians, they spent a busy half-hour setting up their camera and six batteries of lights (each containing seven flash bulbs), so as to provide exactly the best lighting effects on anyone sitting in the King's chair. At precisely the appointed hour the King entered through his private door. He shook...
...gavel at two sturdy old revolutionaries. Russian-born Baruch Charney Vladeck, last week slated to be the council's minority leader, is now general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward and belongs to the new American Labor Party (TIME, Nov. 15), but three of his 51 years were spent in Tsarist prisons. Another Fusion minority member elected by the American Labor Party in The Bronx was bull-necked Michael J. Quill, who once blew up Black-&-Tan lorries in Ireland and still carries a bullet in his left hip. Having worked in the U. S. since 1926, making change...
When not mayoring in the village, Jammy Schmidt serves as clerk of the Chamber of Deputies in Paris. To honor the wedding, local hunters formed a shotgun guard of honor, blazed away with both barrels as the happy couple left the town hall. The rest of the day they spent throwing percussion caps under the legs of terrified horses and cows, drinking free toasts...
Associated Features. Inc., the company that made Harlem on the Prairie, is an all-white organization. President and chief producer is Jed Buell, who has made a specialty of shoe-string productions, spent considerably less than $50,000 on this picture. If Harlem on the Prairie clicks, he plans to turn out four such Westerns a year. Secretary-treasurer of the com-pany is famed, rich Yale Pole-Vaulter Sabin W. Carr...
...Having spent nearly a lifetime testing mankind to see what makes the cranial wheels go round, Psychologist Thorndike two years ago began to test U. S. cities to see which ones were fit for mankind to live in. So important did the Carnegie Corp. consider this study that it gave $100,000 to finance it. Dr. Thorndike and his collaborator, Dr. Ella Woodyard, selected 117 middle-sized cities, gathered data about them on some 120 traits. From these he picked 23 items which he thought most people would agree were attributes of a good town-a low death rate, high...