Word: alien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. papers were once more on sale at London newsstands. But wartime regulations and wartime inflation had sent prices soaring. A Sunday edition that cost 10? in Manhattan sold in London for as much as 2/6 (about 50? at current exchange rates). Reason: no alien periodical could enter Great Britain without special permission from the War Office, except in single copies through the mail. And the increase in postage that newsstands had to pay was aggravated by the rising price of the dollar...
Great, retired Symphonist Karl Muck, wartime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was locked up as an enemy alien during World War I, on his 80th birthday in Berlin received from Adolf Hitler the Plaque of the German Eagle...
...Like Kosciuszko, Polish adjutant to General Washington who fought devoutly for an alien cause, Pulaski fought as a Brigadier-General in the American Revolution. He was killed at Savannah in 1779, and is memorialized by a fine equestrian statue in bronze in Washington and by a titanic $21,000,000 elevated highway over the filthy flats of New Jersey...
...France had thousands of alien Poles working in her mines and northern manufacturing areas...
Died. Sidney Coe Howard, 48, topflight U. S. playwright (The Silver Cord, Alien Corn, Yellow Jack), cinemadapter (Bull Dog Drummond, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), son-in-law of Conductor Walter Damrosch; when a tractor he was cranking lurched forward, pinned and crushed him against a garage wall; on his 700-acre farm near Tyringham, Mass. Born in Oakland, Calif, (where three brothers still live), Sidney Howard used to say that he "grew up in a mess of books . . . fumbled around for some kind of artistic expression." His fumbling took him to the University of California (where he wrote plays), to George Pierce...