FINANCIAL MARKETS; Stocks Sell Off Again -- Call Money Rates, 1 1/2 @ 1 3/4 Per Cent. MORE GOLD ENGAGEMENTS Movement Nears $30,000,000 Mark -- Wall Street Watching the Steel Meetings.
Date: 21 May 1908
Jimmy Stewart Fødselsdag, fødselsdato
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military aviator. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart appeared in 80 films from 1935 to 1991. His films are considered some of the greatest films of all time. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the greatest American male actors; he received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1980, the Kennedy Center Honor in 1983, as well as the Academy Honorary Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom, both in 1985.
Born and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Stewart started acting while at Princeton University. After graduating, he began a career as a stage actor making his Broadway debut in the play Carry Nation (1932). He landed his first supporting role in The Murder Man (1935) and had his breakthrough in Frank Capra's ensemble comedy You Can't Take It with You (1938). He later starred in Capra's political comedy Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Stewart went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the George Cukor romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story (1940). After returning home from World War II, he went on to star in Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), which was a critical and commercial disappointment upon its release, but has since become a beloved classic after its copyright expired in the early 1970s.
Stewart went on to star in four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo (1958), as well as Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).
With his private pilot's skills, he enlisted in the US Army Air Forces during the war, seeking combat duty and rose to be deputy commanding officer of the 2nd Bombardment Wing and commanding the 703d Bombardment Squadron from 1941 to 1947. He later transferred to the Air Force Reserve, and held various command positions until his retirement in 1968 as a brigadier general.
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20th of May 1908 News
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STEEL TRUST SALES GROWING HEAVIER; April's Business Beat That of March and No Cuts in Prices Seem Likely. A REVIVAL LOOKED FOR Sales of Iron on the Increase and Inquiries Better -- Steel Men to Confer at Dinner To-night.
Date: 21 May 1908
POPE HAS REJECTED FRENCH CONCESSION; Takes Stand Against Clause in Devolution Bill Designed to Help Aged Priests. HIS ATTITUDE DISAPPOINTING Paris Papers Predict That His Intransigeance Will Wear Out Patience of Most Docile Catholics.
Date: 21 May 1908
Pope rejects clause in French bill on ch devolution designed to help aged priests; opposes plan which would create societies to take charge of priests' pensions
CARNEGIE FUND AIDS FAMILY IN NEW YORK; Widow and Children of a Hero of the River to Get $50 a Month. AWARDS TO JERSEY HEROES One Had a Hard Fight with a Man Who Jumped from a Ferryboat -- Children Saved.
Date: 21 May 1908
Special to The New York Times
Fund comm names 30 more recipients of awards
HYDROPHOBIA VICTIM DIES AS PREDICTED; Opiates Save W.H. Marsh, the Brooklyn Manufacturer, from Much Pain. PASSES AWAY AS IF ASLEEP Remarkable Rush of Cranks and Busybodies to the House of Death -- Letters from the Country Over. HYDROPHOBIA VICTIM DIE AS PREDICTED
Date: 21 May 1908
dies, as predicted, from rabies
TOPICS IN WALL STREET.; Traders Conserving Profits. Bond Prices Hold Well. Consolidated Gas Acrobatics. Talk of a Bear Raid. Big Output of New Bonds.
Date: 21 May 1908
WANT CITY TO PAY FOR DRIVE EXTENSION; Taxpayers Protest at $1,500,000 Assessment on Their Property for Riverside Improvements. ROW AT PUBLIC HEARING Opponents Try to Howl Down Speaker Who Favors the Assessment on All but His Clients.
Date: 21 May 1908
Washington Heights Taxpayers' Assn leads protest against $1.5-million assessment on NW NYC property owners to pay for extending Drive north of 135th St