Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lost Squadron (RKO), instead of being about flyers in the War, is about flyers performing in a cinema about flyers in the War. While not exactly a breath-taking stroke of originality, this helps give The Lost Squadron a freshness of viewpoint which informs even the routine stretches of the picture. It also permits the inclusion of one character almost entirely new to the cinema: a violent, loudly clothed, arrogantly posturing Hollywood director. The behavior of this director and his name?Von Furst?suggest that
...sort of supervisor. Pleasant grey-haired Admiral Nomura, with many a friend in the U. S., looks startlingly Nordic. During the War he was Japanese naval attache at Washington. He was a member of the Japanese delegation to the Washington Arms Conference, and he brought a Japanese squadron to New York in 1929. His arrival at Shanghai was quite a social occasion. U. S. Vice Admiral Taylor's aide, Lieut. Henri H. Smith-Hutton, paid a call. Admiral Nomura stepped into his barge and returned it. British Vice Admiral Kelly popped over for a chat. The Press was invited...
Five battalions of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, a battery of artillery took the field and Manresa and the other towns were invaded. The "Catalonian Workers' Republic" fell as quickly as it had risen. Most of the inhabitants were heartily glad to see the soldiers. By nightfall troops were playing hide and seek in the mountains with the last of the revolutionists. In Barcelona the government chartered the liner Buenos Aires, loaded it with political prisoners and ordered the captain to sail without any destination until he received further orders by wireless...
...believed by some to be re- lated to the Japanese. Fencing-Master Toth chose for his king the brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, the smiling, near-sighted Prince Chichibu. Fencing-Master Toth neglected to notify Prince Chichibu of his appointment, but someone did notify the Budapest police. A squadron of them pounced upon the conspirators' Pest house, dragged 19 plotters off to jail, nipped the putsch while yet it was green. In the Court of Interrogation convened last week one of the conspirators mentioned the name of General Franz Schill. The Court was aghast. Respected General Schill...
...Yoyogi parade ground in Tokyo, column upon column of Japanese troops passed a reviewing stand upon which stood his owl-eyed Majesty. Emperor Hirohito. After the last ammunition truck and field kitchen had rumbled by. the Son of Heaven stepped down, entered a state coach and, escorted by a squadron of lancers, rolled back to the Imperial Palace. Just outside the Palace grounds the cavalcade turned in through the Sakuradamon or Cherry Village Gate. A Mr. James L. Vierhus, employe of a Peoria. Ill., tractor firm, was standing on the curb. Afterwards he told what happened...