The consensus is that tipping has got out of hand and that we will soon find ourselves in a situation no different from what ...

Only twice has an actor appeared in three 'Best Picture' Academy Award nominees, once in 1940 and again in 2002.

The Washington garden party might have changed the course of World War II — if the British ambassador’s wife had been more diplomatic with the guest list. The June 1939 visit of King George VI, the ...

No Time For Comedy (by S. N. Behrman; produced by Katharine Cornell and the Playwrights Co.) brought Katharine Cornell triumphantly back to Broadway after a two years’ absence—in the first full comedy ...

As diplomatic machinations were unfolding in Europe in 1939. The tension was growing between Germany, which was demanding Danzig from Poland, and Britain and France. Both sides wanted an alliance with ...

The Emergency Powers (Defence Act) of August 1938 had empowered the British government to take certain measures in defence of the nation and to maintain public order. The Defence Act contained around ...

The British public celebrated their relief that war had been, for the present, avoided. However, there was growing concern that Hitler was not, as Chamberlain believed, just another politician who was ...

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The Permanent Exhibition opens with images of concentration camps taken by US Army soldiers in 1945. These scenes shocked even battle-hardened troops and informed the world of the horrors of Nazism ...

Through hundreds of legal measures, the Nazi-led German government gradually excluded Jews from public life, the professions, and public education. The goal of Nazi propaganda was to demonize Jews and ...

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