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...find a project for which WPA funds could be obtained in 1937. After gravely considering their problem they announced that they had agreed on this boondoggle: a bombproof, gas-proof subterranean chamber that will serve as a haven for the entire population if and when an enemy air fleet comes overhead intent on wiping Beaufort...
Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has contributed a number of the prints now on display in the Theatre Room. Scenes shown vary from the crude efforts of the Mary Pickford-Charlie Chaplin era to extravaganzas like "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Here Comes the Fleet...
...implication in the House of Commons. Why is it 'impossible' that the desire of the King, who does not ask that Mrs. Simpson become queen but only his morganatic wife, should be granted by parliamentary vote or at least submitted to such a vote?'' Fleet Street: This week London presses roar with the flat prediction of Viscount Rothermere that morganatic marriage of the Sovereign will be made possible by the Mother of Parliaments and if necessary also by the daughter Parliaments of the Dominions. Yet London editors go sleepless, reporters exhaust themselves and the Cabinet...
Tracing letters sent to Ginger Rogers demanding $5,000 on threat of kidnapping or death. Department of Justice agents trapped Sailor James F. Hall of the Navy aircraft carrier Lexington who explained that he had fallen in love with Cinemactress Rogers after seeing her dance in Follow the Fleet. Campaigning for birth control, Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn, mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, two sons and two other daughters, declared in New Haven, Conn.'s First Methodist Church: "If you aren't frank about sex, your children will never confide in you again. When I explained scientifically and specifically...
Rallying under Angerstein, the older brokers at Lloyd's propose to ask the British admiralty for naval convoys for merchant ships. Sure that this plan, which requires weakening Nelson's fighting fleet, means ultimate defeat for England, Blake holds out against it. When a letter from the admiral reminds him of their boyhood promise, Blake takes the desperate chance of using his semaphore to flash news of a naval victory which has not happened. The ruse delays the admiralty's plan until Nelson, with his full fleet at his command, has won gloriously and died at Trafalgar...