Word: zandt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth, 76, pioneer cinemactor; in Glendale, Calif. Born in Marietta, Ohio, Bosworth ran off to sea at twelve, at 19 joined a stock company, soon rose to leading parts with Minnie Maddern Fiske and Julia Marlowe. Pronounced fatally tuberculous, seven years later he earned $125 for two days' work as the star of the first movie made on the Pacific Coast: a one-reeler, The Sultan's Power (1909). Three of his 500-odd subsequent films: The Big Parade, Woman of Affairs, The Miracle...
...parade up Broadway, V.F.W.s carried death's-heads, the drum major a crutch. The campaign landed the V.F.W. on the nation's front pages. The U.S. that had made Merchants of Death a best-seller cheered; veterans of World War I jeered. Exploded James E. Van Zandt, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (and now a Congressman from Pennsylvania): "They're too yellow to go to war. . . . They'll never be veterans of a future...
Echoed Committee member James F. Van Zandt: "Where is the remarkable record of Kaiser shipbuilding we have read so much about...