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May 15, 2024 · Joel McCrea (born November 5, 1905, South Pasadena, California, U.S.—died October 20, 1990, Woodland Hills, California) was an American motion-picture actor of the 1930s and ’40s. McCrea was the son of a utility company executive.
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Apr 29, 2024 · Howard Hawks (born May 30, 1896, Goshen, Indiana, U.S.—died December 26, 1977, Palm Springs, California) was an American motion-picture director who maintained a consistent personal style within the framework of traditional film genres in work that ranged from the 1920s to the ’70s.
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2 days ago · Stalinism is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin. Stalin had previously made a career as a gangster and robber, working to fund revolutionary activities, before eventually becoming General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
Apr 30, 2024 · In the late 1930s, working as a photojournalist for Lilliput and Picture Post, Brandt began to photograph the industrial cities and coal-mining districts of northern England, creating images that reveal the desperation of England’s industrial workers during the 1930s.
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May 13, 2024 · "With this collection of more than 600 oral histories recalling the Great Depression, Bindas provides a detailed, personal chronicle of the 1930s from a rural Southern perspective and captures a historical era and its meaning.
Apr 29, 2024 · From 1930 to 2000, there is limited biographical coverage. Dictionary of American Biography. REF E176.D5. Twenty-volume set containing scholarly articles and bibliographies about prominent Americans who died prior to 1927. Seven supplements bring the coverage up to 1965. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online [U.K.] REF DA28 .O95 2004.
3 days ago · Melvin B. Tolson. February 6, 1898–August 29, 1966. Poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson inspired generations of students to stand up for equal rights and dignity. Tolson was born in Missouri in 1900 and grew up in the Midwest. In 1924 he began teaching at the historically Black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas.
