Word: unites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Irishmen love" and urged that it be settled "before it gives serious trouble." Result was that last week Mr. Chamberlain backed down completely, announced that as a "recognition of Northern Ireland's patriotism" recruits for the British Army there would be limited to a volunteer reserve tank unit. Eire was again appeased...
...Hitler's Reichstag speech, conscription was primarily important in signalizing another break in Britain's traditions, another change in the status of British labor, another change in the status of British arms. For 70 years British practice has been to maintain a complementary unit in England for every Army unit required overseas. In theory each regiment has a battalion at home and one abroad, the home battalion training men to replace soldiers whose active service has expired. In comparison with this smooth machine, involving a minimum number of men in training on the British Isles, last week...
...overmastering passion for detail and a policy of shooting everything in sight. Of the 205,000 feet of film exposed for Union Pacific, DeMille and his cutter, Anne Bauchens, threw away all but 12,158. On the set DeMille manipulates his mobs through a special public-address system. When unit directors go to remote locations, he stays in Hollywood, keeps in constant touch by telephone and through emissaries described (by Manhattan's elegant railroad amateur Lucius Beebe, a technical adviser on Union Pacific) as "the king's messengers." Traditionally the best actor and dramatic writer on any DeMille...
Sharing Big Steel's worries, in a more modest way, is the industry's No. 4 unit-Jones & Laughlin, also frozen up in Pittsburgh, also led in the Detroit flat-steel market by National Steel and others. Owing preferred stockholders $36.75 a share of back dividends, J. & L. is certainly no happier than Big Steel...
...charge of the University R. O. T. C. unit is Lieutenant Colonel Arthur R. Harris, of the Field Artillery...