Word: waverers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buchanan Richardson Sr., assistant adjutant of the Third Corps Area. Near Ville Savage, France one August day in 1918, as a major in command of the 306th machine gun battalion, he was covering a charge by the 308th Infantry. Suddenly he saw one company, led by an inexperienced commander, waver and fall back under the enemy's fire. "With great gallantry and utmost disregard of personal danger" Major Richardson leaped forward, rallied the faltering company, led it through bursting shell to victory. Major Richardson received the Distinguished Service Cross, the French Legion of Honor, the Victory Medal and three...
...through her fiance and the Honolulu manager of her father's business. When Banker Bradford becomes suspicious and recalls his manager from Honolulu, there are altercations in a speakeasy and mysterious stirrings in the Bradford house. Arlene turns up dead in the garage. The newshawk's loyalties waver between his paper and Arlene's half-sister (Margaret Lindsay) whom he loves. A free-for-all chase leads to more mystery. Who sent the spurious telegram? Who threw Jake Bello into the bay? What about the sinister butler, the yacht Nowishn and Arthur Burchard to whom Arlene willed...
Adroitly in this sequence Author Ben Hecht and Director Roy Del Ruth let the audience's sympathies waver between the honest railman and the honest officer. Yet when the case is broken by newshawks and the picture moves to its routine end, everyone appears to have forgotten the policeman, last seen in his cell. Good shot: Toler losing his best piece of evidence, in the Police Commissioner's office...
...wrinkly little infant who was to be named George Michael Cohan let out his first faint caw, firecrackers were popping in Providence, R. I. Bands were playing. It was July 4, 1878,* a birthday worthy of one who was to be famed as the greatest and most successful flag-waver in the U. S. show business. This week George M. Cohan is to wave a flag in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to introduce a song called "What a Man!" in honor of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday. The Manhattan celebration will be one of 5,000 throughout...
...hole of a sectional golf tournament played at St. Augustine, Fla. in 1925. The man he was playing against hooked his shot, waved his club angrily. The next thing Mr. Evans knew he was lying on the fairway with a painful lump rapidly rising on his forehead. The club-waver was curly-haired Clair Maxwell. Life's president. A year later Mr. Evans quit his sportwriting job and was working for his assailant. He became Life's managing editor, is still its cinema critic...