Word: winston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words, would have required five and a half hours to run if it ever had been shot. It never was. They made another. Then Selznick made another. In the next year Jo Swerling, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, John Van Druten, Michael Foster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Miller, John Balderston, Edwin Justus Mayer all had at least a little finger in the scenario. But next to Sidney Howard's work, the bulk of the scripting, as David Selznick admits, was done by David Selznick. He is still very touchy because a shooting script was not ready even...
...this article's publication, Winston Churchill arose in the House of Commons to give his fourth war review as First Lord of the Admiralty. With his usual dry punch he declared : "The destruction of U-boats is proceeding normally . . . between two and four a week...
Because ... he has risen out of a moldy graveyard of the past to a new destiny in one of England's most important posts . . . the Honorable Winston Churchill of England...
...Lindy." In charge of mine research for the Admiralty was put First Lord Winston Churchill's inventor-friend, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Oxford professor, scientist, aviator, director of the R. A. F.'s Physical Laboratory in World War I. One mine brought in for "Lindy's" inspection was retrieved by a brave diver who went to the bottom alone to get it. Report was that the triggers of the new mines were found to be so sensitive they responded to sound waves as well as magnetism...
...American Civil War when all the heroism of the South could not redeem their cause from the stain of slavery, just as all the courage and skill, which the Germans show in war, will not free them from the reproach of Naziism with its intolerance and brutality," cried Winston Churchill month ago. Vexed, Mrs. Walter D. Lamar, retiring president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, last week retorted: "That insult to the best part of America shows both ignorance and stupidity. . . ." Hastily Mr. Churchill's secretaries rushed off answers to letter-writing Southerners, assured them that Mr. Churchill...