Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philip in Paris thought "they have accomplished what no other French ministers have ever done ... a firm agreement between Great Britain and France to stand together and fight together if and when they must fight." Flashed from London International News Service's Kingsbury Smith: "A new western frontier beyond which Germany will be forbidden to trespass was created today by France and Great Britain, simultaneously with adoption of a program to check Nazi expansion in Europe...
...Chinese air force, once destroyed, once reorganized, composed of Russian, Italian, French, German, American, British and Chinese aircraft and men, had again been revitalized. That the Japanese might have difficulty maintaining their aerial superiority was indicated by the arrival via British-controlled Hong Kong of huge airplane shipments from western Europe, of other flying fortresses from Soviet Russia via Soviet-controlled Outer Mongolia...
Typical is the case of S. K. Timoshenko, Second-Rank Red Army Commander (Major General). Last summer he was Assistant Commander at Kiev of the Ukraine Military District in western Russia, adjoining Poland. In the autumn he was appointed Commander in the Caucasus in Russia's south. By winter he was shunted to Kharkov, the industrial centre of the Ukraine, and today he is back at Kiev, now as full Commander-four shifts in less than a year, and at each shift but one Timoshenko has replaced a Red Army officer who was "purged...
...runtiest stunt cinema has ever attempted, Producer Jed Buell (Harlem on the Prairie, TIME, Dec. 13) was last week collecting in Hollywood 200 midgets. Their assignment: an all-midget, musical Western, The Terror of Tiny Town. Quickest to follow Producer Buell's knee-high lead was Dr. Eugene Frenke, producer husband of Actress Anna Sten. His pint-sized project: Half-Buck Rides Again...
...Under Western Stars (Republic) introduces a new singing cowboy, compact, blue-eyed, diffident Roy Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...