Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arctic Council of peppery explorers warned Norway that Danes were planning to explore East Greenland, secure it for Denmark (TIME, June 8, 1931 et seq.). Acting quickly, Norway sent half a dozen men to plant the Norwegian flag among the sad-eyed Eskimos and puffins on a 350-mile strip of the eastern coast which they named Eric the Red Land. A year later another Norwegian expedition "seized"' more of East Greenland...
...Night (Universal) is, as the title suggests, a timidly salacious little comic-strip, showing that its producers do not believe Tsar Will Hays's latest pronunciamento that "The general public today demand higher, not lower . . . standards from the screen." It shows an overgrown lout named Ronald Colgate (George "Slim" Summerville) trying to escape from the apron strings of an idiotically devoted mother (Laura Hope Crews) long enough to pay court to the nurse (Zasu Pitts) in a department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their...
...best that can be said about "What. No Beer," the companion-feature, is that it is fine beer propaganda, now a rather useless strip of celluloid. The story, however, is more than worthy of the Keaton-Duraute combination, which seems to have lost, such of its original pop. In addition, Phyllis Barry is undoubtedly the most excellent siren of the season...
...year later with Chase). Was it a war between the Rockefellers and Morgan? The Hearst Press, without a single new fact to base its theory on, and making such blunders as describing Mr. Aldrich as a Rockefeller son-in-law,* seized this lurid angle: "The House of Rockefeller would strip the House of Morgan of this tremendous power. ... It caught the Morgan camp wholly unawares and created something akin to consternation. . . . Even with the Rockefeller backing, it took courage to antagonize and defy the House of Morgan, starting a feud in which no quarter will be given nor asked...
...territory in dispute is the Chaco. This strip of land is vitally important to Bolivia and the American exporters, for it provides a short cut to the sea. The English, since they own and operate the railroad running over the old, longer passage to the coast, are solidly behind the Paraguayans who are attempting to retain the Chaco. The usual war hysteria has camouflaged this primary issue and added oil to the flames. Horror stories and parades have done their insidious work on the mob mind, until it has seemed to both nations that nothing but national pride and honor...