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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gushed in private that Ford would be glad to set him up at the head of a union, perhaps confined to Ford workers and unaffiliated with C. I. O. Henceforth Mr. Harry Bennett, whether he made himself so or was made so by the factionalists. may have to be taken into account as a big figure in the high politics of automobile labor...
After an all-night meeting Premier Dr. Juan Negrin's Cabinet decided to stay in Barcelona for the time being, but announced that they had taken all "necessary measures to guarantee against any eventuality the continuous administration of the State and the work of government.'' In other words, the Negrin Cabinet, unlike the Largo Caballero Cabinet which hastily fled from Madrid to Valencia in late 1936, decided to remain at their posts until there could be no doubt that the city was lost. They would then flee...
...Taken by and large, Western Union girls are a pretty nice lot. They generally talk through their noses, pronounce "nine" as though it rhymed with "lion," and are unduly inquisitive about whose name the telephone is registered under, but in a pinch they'll always come through...
...booking, usually in a hateful conspiracy against movie patrons, have produced something unique at Keith's: a double bill with two pictures in the "best" category. "The Lady Vanishes" is one of the finest things ever to come from England. It is a directorial masterpiece, for Alfred Hitchcock has taken discouraging material--an ordinary spy mystery--and has, characteristically, brewed from it a tense, gripping drama. With his uncanny skill in ordering the presentation of his material, he succeeds in building up punishing suspense, and, moreover, manages to do what few, if any, other directors can do--maintain constant interest...
...boat is soon completely out of the convict's control. It races downstream, hits an eddy, drifts back, finally carries the convict, stunned and incredulous, to the tree where the woman perches on the branch like a bird. "It's taken you a while," she says...