Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's first soldier dead in action in France was reported: William Roper, 28, of Dewsbury, Yorkshire, killed on volunteer guard duty...
Complaints against the Allied blockade have been registered by Argentina, Chile, Japan, The Netherlands, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, the U. S. But these complaints were private. Last week Germany's big new friend Russia complained formally, officially. In a note handed at Moscow to British Ambassador Sir William Seeds, Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin found the interests of neutral countries gravely impaired, international trade destroyed...
...Time of Your Life (by William Saroyan; produced by the Theatre Guild Inc. in association with Eddie Dowling). Last season Short-Story Writer William Saroyan made his bow as a playwright with a long, whimsical one-acter, My Heart's in the Highlands, drew praise from many critics. Last week, with his first full-length play, Saroyan had most of the critics throwing their hats in the air. They were willing to forgive The Time of Your Life its lack of form and dearth of plot because of its "poignant beauty," "high quality of imagination," "ever-warming tenderness...
Less shouted about than Los Angeles' famed Hollywood Bowl summer concerts are the regular winter programs of Los Angeles' 20-year-old Philharmonic Orchestra. Golden Age of the Los Angeles Philharmonic was between 1919 and 1933, when the late copper tycoon William Andrews Clark Jr. lost $250,000 a year on it. When the cornucopia stopped flowing at Clark's death five years ago, a group of conservative Los Angeles socialites managed to keep his orchestra alive, but gave it less lavish rations. Proud were they of getting as permanent conductor world-famed Otto Klemperer. While...
...award: the Vermilye Medal, named for Donor William Moorhead Vermilye, vice president of Manhattan's National City Bank. The first recipient: Lewis Herold Brown, handsome (see cut) young (45) president of big Johns-Manville Corp. (building materials, etc.). Until the presentation ceremony two weeks hence, the Institute will not reveal its bill of particulars in favor of Mr. Brown. It hardly needs to then...