Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German invasion of Poland had waged an overpowering Blitzkrieg against the Presidential hopes of all other Democrats and of many Republicans. Temporarily in the background was John Nance Garner, who believes with "The Boss" that the sane course is a return to international...
Night. A railway station at Cernauti, Rumania, onetime outpost of German culture in the East, now a hurtling trade centre at the base of the Carpathian Mountains. Rolling hills in the background, overshadowed by the black mass of a 3,000-ft. peak; the Prut River flowing nearby. Enter Colonel Josef Beck, Foreign Minister of Poland. No longer the same man as in Act I and II, the Colonel is haggard, sleepless; the sardonic elegance that marked his appearance has vanished. With him is Marshal Smigly-Rydz, Commander in Chief of the Polish Armies, equally haggard, desperate...
Professor Cross's background for his new avocation goes beyond the academic. For six years after graduating from Harvard he served in the foreign service of the Department of Commerce; part of that time as commercial attache at Brussels and the Hague, and for the remainder as the Department's European chief...
...background to the understanding of collective bargaining, the course includes a survey of the historical development of the American labor movement, and an interpretation of its influences...
...delightful fare, even for the most heavily armor-plated movie-goer. David Niven has climbed another rung towards a well-deserved stardom. Miss Rogers does a fine job, even though the shadows of Fred Astaire and such triumphs as "Top Hat" and "The Castles" still lurk wistfully in the background. Director Kanin, newcomer on the movie lots, has given the whole picture a refreshing sense of everyday people in an everyday world,--a sense which too many pictures lack and which makes too many well-constructed plots hollow. It would seem that Hollywood is hard up for plots when they...