Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will never call him Papa Pershing," War Correspondent Hey wood Broun wrote 22 years ago in France. Last week, when the commanding general of the A. E. F. was 79, there was no record that any of his one-time doughboys had yet called him Papa. But many a veteran of World War I sent birthday greetings to John J. Pershing, General of the Armies...
Dropping his role as France's smartest bartender, 45-year-old World War I Veteran Georges Carpentier, who lasted three rounds with Jack Dempsey in Jersey City in 1921, rejoined the air service...
...Washington, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said for the record : 1) that in war the press is a seasoned veteran and radio an untried rookie, and 2) that if radio proved itself a "good child," well-mannered, etc., it would be left to itself; but if it turned out to be a bad one, the Government disposition would be to "teach it some manners." Under the Federal Communications Act the President could, in any national emergency or merely to safeguard U. S. neutrality, shut down any or all radio stations. Already the President had proclaimed U. S. neutrality...
...radio's best-laid plans for this war was to keep the radio audience hep to devious military movements and tactics. NBC had cornered General Hugh Johnson's spare time. CBS had Major R. Ernest Dupuy, old New York Herald man, World War veteran, author (If War Comes, with Major George Fielding Eliot), and West Point's public relations officer. MBS got Major Kent C. Lambert from Fort Jay, onetime exchange officer with the Polish Army. But last week, almost as soon as war began, all three went out of action...
...Marlene Dietrich, informing each that she was his choice for the sought-after part of Lady Esketh. Harried Producer Zanuck got no peace until he solved the mystery, passed the telegrams around. The only memorable performance in The Rains Came is that of button-faced, button-sized Russian veteran Maria Ouspenskaya. Cast as Charles Boyer's grandmother in one scene in Love Affair this year, Actress Ouspenskaya stole the picture. As the barefooted but regal Maharani of The Rains Came, she does it again...