Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter of Mr. E. P. Holton of Los Angeles [TIME, Sept.11], suggesting that Great Britain grant the United States title to the British possessions in the Western Hemisphere, including all Pacific islands, but excluding the Dominion of Canada, received a favorable vote in this community. I have submitted the proposition to several business and professional men and there has not been a single objection to the proposition...
...Middle Western college student talks to him about the rights of neutrals rather than about women. Other college students let him go as a bloody snob. The Boston city father labels him a terror, to be put down with tear-gas and billies on a balmy spring evening...
OSLO, Norway--An unidentified warship, seen limping southward under cover of a heavy smoke screen, was believed to have been crippled in a naval battle that shook the western coast of Norway for 10 hours today with the rumble of heavy shelling...
...Chopin wrote the score for Poland's agony (see p. 25"), Walt Disney supplied a marching song for the Western Front. British Tommies reworded the work carol of the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and, as they moved toward their posts in the Maginot Line last week, sang: "Heigh-ho, heigh...
When a St. Louis theatre manager fortnight ago revived the cinema's most eloquent preachment against war, All Quiet on the Western Front, that nine-year-old picture played to packed houses. Last week Universal, producers of All Quiet and of Author Erich Maria Remarque's equally tragic sequel, The Road Back, announced plans to reissue both films. To All Quiet will be added a new commentary, fore & aft, and some of the 3,000 feet snipped from the film after it left the hands of Director Lewis Milestone. Universal will also restore to The Road Back controversial...