Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After an announcement by excitable Samuel Goldwyn that he had abandoned Raffles so that Actor David Niven could rejoin the Highland Light Infantry, work on Raffles was hastily resumed when the British Consulate in Los Angeles thought that Actor Niven would not be needed for at least 30 days. Only other Britishers on the active reserve list (liable to immediate call) were John Loder, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and the Earl of Warwick, whose Hollywood name is Michael Brooke. Only volunteer to turn up at the Consulate was Actor Alan Mowbray, 43, who was put to work listing other British subjects...
...gutted Prado and many another lesser museum, vandalized churches and bombed palaces, had reached safety in Switzerland. In the cars were 1,842 big packing cases, containing 266 masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Velasquez, Titian, Rubens, scores of other paintings, priceless collections of gold and silver work, porcelain, tapestries, sculpture, manuscripts. For nearly two and a half years they had lain in crates, ponderously tagging after the defeated Government as it fled from Madrid to Valencia to Barcelona. Armored trucks finally took Spain's art along the refugee road to France, where it was sent for safekeeping...
...bulletins. A teletype printer flashes them to newsrooms and agencies in Fleet Street. But most reporters, British and foreign alike, get their news direct from the mimeograph, write their copy in the great hundred-foot-square entrance hall of the Ministry, gas masks slung over their shoulders as they work, surrounded by thick mugs of bitter India...
...censors, 100 middle-aged gentlemen with blue pencils, sit in a room in the basement. Copy goes down to them by pneumatic tube. Cable dispatches they read and then pass on by teletype to cable offices. For correspondents who prefer to do their work in their own offices (and for laymen sending private messages) another 100-odd censors are on duty at the telegraph and cable companies...
...floor of the Ministry to recite their grievances. Director General Eric Drummond Lord Perth (who later in the week became Advisor on Foreign Publicity and was succeeded by Sir Findlater Stewart) and his Chief Censor. Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, heard them patiently, anxious to satisfy the men on whose work depends the U. S. public's opinion of Britain's war. They agreed to appoint more censors, keep them on duty 24 hours a day. Another proposal-that radio broadcasts be delayed until newsmen had time to file their stories-was held over for consideration...