Word: casting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pound hard and continuously at potential German invasion bases. The equinox came, but not the enemy. The time for a fair-weather invasion ended, and the time for a foul-weather one arrived. Gales lashed the Channel, and along the French coast barges and small vessels were reported cast loose in confusion. And the air was thick with another kind of wind-that of rumor. The Germans were said to be returning small boats requisitioned from Norwegians. They were reported still sending troops out in barges, making them jump overboard and get ashore in practice landings, drowning...
Then because of historical inaccuracies in the model another contest was held. Student Dallin won a second time. But a campaign for funds to have the statue cast was stalled by newspaper criticism...
Student Dallin went to Paris, remained for nearly 50 years-without forgetting Paul Revere. Returning to Boston in 1935, he approached trustees of a fund dedicated to "public blessings." The trustees dallied with Mr. Dallin for three years, finally gave $27,500 to cast the statue in bronze...
...from the three major networks will foregather in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria to join in an aerial storytelling bee. Wired for sound by NBC, the tale-spinners' seminar will include such lights as Raymond Gram Swing, Elmer Davis, H. V. Kaltenborn, Walter Winchell. Purpose of the broad cast: to pay tribute to Lowell Thomas on his tenth anniversary in radio...
...Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Alfred Duff Cooper. All flatly deny authorship. At any rate Guilty Men is terse, biting, sometimes eloquent, gives every appear ance of careful, responsible judgment. The charges are not new. But the total indictment is terrible. Guilty Men is headed by a cast sheet of villains. Among them: Ramsay MacDonald, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Neville Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Sir Samuel Hoare, Lord Halifax, Sir Thomas Inskip, Mr. Leslie Burgin, a half-dozen others...