Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm with fat, noncompetitive contracts to supply the State with such things as prison uniforms. His crowning reward was the presidency of the New Orleans Levee Board, with permission to build and name for himself a $4,000,000 airport having "Shushan" engraved 3,200 times on its metal, stone, tile and bronze. It was he who, as a bosom friend, stayed by Long's death bed. rushed out with the first news of his passing...
...next step in the Italian advance. For days Italian forces had this mecca of the Coptic Christians practically surrounded. Scouting planes made hourly flights over it, could see no trace of Ethiopian troops. Still no attack was made, for in the centre of small Aksum stands a little crenelated stone church, holiest in the empire. There Ethiopia's earliest kings are buried. In it was supposed to lie the true Ark of the Covenant. Before such a Christian shrine Italy dared risk no accident that could be used to breed atrocity stories throughout the Christian world. Day after...
Shipmates Forever (Warner), one more evidence of the fatal fascination which the Navy has for the cinema industry in general and Warner Brothers in particular, exhibits Dick Powell as a partially reformed night-club crooner struggling through Annapolis to win the acclaim of his father (Lewis Stone) and his girl (Ruby Keeler). Songs: I Love to Take Orders from You; I Love to Listen to Your Eyes...
...near future, the British are going to start a program of intense naval building. Their lead will probably be followed by the Germans who are allowed, under this summer's treaty, 35 per cent of the total British strength. When this race starts it will be but a stone's throw to an international situation akin to that existent in Europe...
...United States Navy and their effect on a crooner whose heart is really in the right place all the time. Ruby Keeler is a good influence with a brave smile--What else could she be--and Dick Powell is What could he be? Dick's father--Lewis Stone -- delivers several inspirational speeches and in general occupies himself by smiling through tears. Koss Alexander is amusing; he and various other Naval Academy cadets exhibit fellowship, loyalty, and navy spirit at all times. the effect of the picture is in general to reassure timid souls that the U. S. navy watches over...