Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William James ("Billy") Baskette, 65, composer-pianist, who wrote such topical tunes as the World War I hit Goodbye Broadway, Hello France and Prohibition's Everybody Wants the Key to My Cellar; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Los Angeles...
...President of the Board of Trade (1914-16, 1931-37); after long illness; in Chathill, England. In 1931 Runciman drafted, under Tory pressure, the emergency tariff that ended Britain's 80-year-old free trade policy; in 1938 he was unofficial mediator in the Czech-Sudeten pre-World War II crisis...
Moses, who was returning from the Yale game, has owned a war surplus North American AT-6 trainer for a year and a half. He took off at Bridgeport at 4:45 p.m. yesterday and was due at Logan Airport at 5:40 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration officials reported...
Actress Roshan Dhunjiboy, a native of Calcutta, India, who understudied Ophelia with John Gielgud at the close of the war, was named yesterday as lead in the Dramatic Club's production of "Autigone...
...Guardsman" is the Ferene Molnar play in which the Lamis made their first hit in 1924. It is set in pre-World War 1 Vienna and concerns a celebrated acting couple who find that their love has grown cold after six months of married life. The husband decides to impersonate a Russian guardsman and woo his wife in disguise. To his consternation, he finds he is successful. Of such sophisticated nonsense is "The Guardsman" made...