Word: cooperativeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumors that German troops were arriving in Morocco at Ceuta, only 14 miles across the Straits from Britain's Gibraltar and "within canonading range''. In London these rumors had galvanic effect. The nervous Duke of Windsor's nervous intimate friend, British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper, who has said in a public address that he considers it his duty to "frighten people out of their wits" with the dangers of War (TIME, June 22), promptly bolted from London over to Paris. There he conferred with burly, square-jawed French War Minister Edouard Daladier, an ambitious politician...
Producer Sol Lesser, who made the picture, got his background as a childstar impresario by manufacturing pictures for Jackie Coogan, Jackie Cooper, Baby Peggy. Conscious of its limitations, he utilizes the waif motif in rudimentary form. Breen appears first in the custody of a fat colored mammy (Louise Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth...
...Wild Bill" Hickok (Gary Cooper), famed scout, is detailed by General Custer to go after Yellow Hand (Paul Harvey), a Cheyenne chief who is leading his people on the warpath. At the same time Hickok's friend Bill Cody (James Ellison) rides to relieve a Federal garrison beleaguered by the Indians. Hickok's girl, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), can cut a man's hat off at 40 ft. with a mule-skinner's rawhide but cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail...
...outdoor, glass-walled swimming pool, for which the water has to be cooled because it comes from natural hot springs, will paddle notables like Robert Pabst (beer), Julius Fleischmann (yeast), William S. Paley (Columbia Broadcasting), Ward Cheney (silk). Arrival of Hollywood bigwigs like Producer Sam Goldwyn and Actor Gary Cooper for Sun Valley's premiere, is likely to leave Ketchum profoundly bored. Because the town is too small for a cinema theatre, they are unknown. Proprietors of Ketchum's Brant Hotel and its $2-a-day tourist camp dislike their new rival, expect it to spoil their trade...
...there be no boasting in our pride!" The proud Primate went on to describe the Duke of Windsor as "alien," called him as though already dead "our late King," denounced his "craving for private happiness" and referred to the present War Secretary of Great Britain, Captain Alfred Duff-Cooper and other close intimates of Edward VIII, thus: "Let those who belong in this circle know that today they stand rebuked...