Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although known personally to prefer London's and Paris' ways to Berlin's, the Regent has nevertheless recognized that Yugoslavia is now soundly squeezed between Germany and Italy (in Albania) and that when Führer Hitler wants to entertain him he has to take...
...went back to San Francisco and began writing a financial column for the Chronicle. Then, deciding he needed more education, he borrowed $500 and went to Europe. In January 1933 the financial editor of the Chronicle died and Wonderboy Smith got a cable to come home and take the job. When Herbert Hoover tried to hire him away in 1935, he was made executive editor. In October 1937 he became general manager, with only one boss, Cementman George Cameron, who married the founder's eldest daughter...
...spite of Paul Smith's innovations, his brass, and his feverish activity (he will take over any job on the paper, from managing editor to leg man), the morning Chronicle still has the smallest circulation in San Francisco (104,893), carries the largest staff (wags say that at fires there are more Chronicle reporters than firemen). Hearst's Examiner still dominates the morning field with a circulation of 163,003 built on the best local coverage in town. Of the afternoon papers, Hearst's Call-Bulletin is a shrill screamer, the Scripps-Howard News a tired liberal...
Tops among Hollywood writer-director teams for many a year were hairy little Frank Capra, who used to be a Mack Sennett gagman, and baldish Robert Riskin, who got into the movie business when a shirt manufacturer he was working for decided to take a flier in shorts. During the six years they worked together for Columbia, Capra & Riskin turned out a dazzling string of critical and box-office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share...
...must be settled before the property can change hands. Declining to comment upon the lien, Mrs. Kaufman arose from her bed, journeyed to New York, spent an evening with Father Divine and his angels, declared afterward that she had conveyed her property to him. Father Divine announced he would take a boatload of his followers to Newport to inspect The Castle. Meantime he said the property would be held in escrow "until any little disturbances have been obviated...