He is believed to be the first Western journalist to interview Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, and is best known for Red Star Over China ( 1937 ) an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s.

In 2001, Eric Simonson, leader of the 1999 Mallory and Irvine Expedition, and German researcher Jochen Hemmleb, who inspired it, travelled to Beijing to interview some of the remaining survivors of the 1960 Chinese Everest expedition, which had been the first expedition back to the north side since the British attempts of the 1920s and 1930s.

Fluent in German, he became friendly with Ernst Röhm who arranged for him to interview Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.

He explained in an interview with John Joseph Adams that the adventure films of the 1930s era were not limited by what was practical, but only by the imaginations of the creators.

In February 1993, when Kryuchkov ’ s secret letter to Gorbachev was published in the Italian newspaper La Stampa, Grósz gave an interview to the Hungarian newspaper Népszabadsag the following month, acknowledging that Nagy had indeed worked for the Soviet secret police in the 1930s and early 1940s

In a CBC interview he said that to give his lecture in the 1930s ,-40s or 50s " would have been ludicrous ".

In an interview in the magazine Crawdaddy, Richards credits Taylor for influencing the track: "... the song was originally written as a real Hank Williams / Jimmie Rodgers / 1930s country song.

According to an interview he gave to Gabby Logan on BBC Radio 5 Live on 28 July 2007, he is a great-grandson of Herbert Chapman, the manager of the Arsenal football team of the 1930s.

However, when Darryl F. Zanuck merged his fledgling studio, 20th Century Pictures, with Fox Film Corporation to form Twentieth Century Fox, her status became precarious and even tertiary to that of actresses Loretta Young and Shirley Temple, although she always received top billing in every movie that she made during the 1930s, including Ladies in Love ( 1937 ) with Constance Bennett, Young, and Tyrone Power.

Constance Vera Browne, Baroness Oranmore and Browne ( 14 February 1916 – 24 September 2006 ), commonly known as Sally Gray, was an English film actress of the 1930s and 1940s.

After the 1930s closure of Naval Air Station Rockaway across the inlet, a hangar at Floyd Bennett Field was dedicated as Naval Air Reserve Base New York within the larger civilian facility.

Bennett made scientific history in the 1930s pioneering studies in plasma physics-the study of gases ionized by high-voltage electricity.

Bennett in the 1930s, and adopted as fundamental party policy in the intervening years, began to lose favour.

The setting is a 1930s public school modelled on Eton, where Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways.

His association with Hitchcock continued into the 1930s, with Bennett writing some of the latter's most famous British films-The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ), Secret Agent ( 1936 ), Sabotage ( 1936 ), and Young and Innocent ( 1937 ).

Asked about her affiliations in the 1930s, she replied, " I was under the influence and the discipline of the Communist movement, although I was not a member " and that she had taken part in " faction meetings and cell meetings.

This topic was further developed in the 1930s by Alonso Church and Alan Turing, who on the one hand gave two independent but equivalent definitions of computability, and on the other gave concrete examples for undecidable questions.

Lattimore's lawyer Abe Fortas accused McCarran of deliberately asking questions about arcane and obscure matters that took place in the 1930s in hopes that Lattimore would not be able to recall them properly, thereby giving grounds for a perjury indictment because of discrepancies between the In records and Lattimore's testimony.

In tying together stories of labor issues and steel strikes, censorship in painting and theater, and the disparities of wealth and power, Robbins is able to paint a picture of the 1930s that goes beyond simply recounting past events and questions the boundaries between art, power and politics.

Lattimore's defenders, such as his lawyer Abe Fortas, claimed that the discrepancies were caused by McCarran deliberately asking questions about arcane and obscure matters that took place in the 1930s.

Nunn May is a major character in the 2003 novel, The Cloud Chamber, by Clare George, a fictional account of Cambridge physicists in the 1930s which centers on the scientific excitement of the interwar years contrasted with the vexing moral questions faced by scientists during World War II.

The feud had simmered since the late 1930s over ideological differences, particularly the questions of the Moscow Trials and of Hellman's support for the " Popular Front " with Stalin.

Hence the quantum mechanical methods developed in the 1930s and 1940s are often referred to as theoretical molecular or atomic physics to underline the fact that they were more the application of quantum mechanics to chemistry and spectroscopy than answers to chemically relevant questions.

After the first crude X-ray diffraction images of DNA were collected in the 1930s, William Astbury had talked about stacks of nucleotides spaced at 3. 4 angström ( 0. 34 nanometre ) intervals in DNA.

Whereas Lang was worried about the advent of the Nazi regime, partly because of his Jewish heritage, his wife and screen writer Thea von Harbou had started to sympathize with the Nazis in the early 1930s and joined the NSDAP in 1932.

In the 1920s and 1930s, however, all his commissions came from private individuals, and it was not until the 1950s that he was able to put his progressive ideas about social housing into practice, in projects in Utrecht and Reeuwijk.

In the mid 1930s, the Japanese nominal wage rates were 10 times less than the one of the U. S ( based on mid-1930s exchange rates ), while the price level is estimated to have been about 44 % the one of the U. S.

Also, it is hard to tell much about which industries are growing, stagnating or declining by looking at the aggregate economic statistics, least until better statistics were collected following the 1930s.

The Lindy Hop was born in black communities in Harlem, New York in the United States from about 1927 into the early 1930s from four possible sources: the breakaway, the Charleston, the Texas Tommy, and the hop.

By the 1930s, stories about reaching Mars had become somewhat trite, and the focus shifted to Mars as an alien landscape.

In the 1930s, anti-drug propaganda was exampled in such films as Reefer Madness ( 1936 ), originally financed by a church group under the title Tell Your Children, was intended to be shown to parents as a morality tale attempting to teach them about the dangers of cannabis use, and Assassin of Youth ( 1937 ) about the supposed ill-effects of cannabis.

Man-made features have also introduced restrictions, the most important of which was a dam constructed in the 1930s on the White Nile about forty kilometers upriver from Khartoum.

The " People's Car " would be available to citizens of the Third Reich through a savings scheme at 990 Reichsmark ( US $ 396 in 1930s dollars )-- about the price of a small motorcycle ( an average income being around 32RM a week ).

" As the 1930s loomed, Paley set about building the CBS talent stable.

Eastwood next starred in the period comedy City Heat ( 1984 ) alongside Burt Reynolds, a film about a private eye and his partner who get mixed up with gangsters in the prohibition era of the 1930s.

Thanks in part to its success in organizing labor unions and its early opposition to fascism, the Communist Party of the United States ( CPUSA ) increased its membership through the 1930s, reaching a peak of about 75, 000 members in 1940 – 41.

When the film was released, it received mixed reviews, particularly about its controversial content, but Lombard's performance was hailed as the perfect send off to one of 1930s Hollywood's most important stars.

Our knowledge about the geology of the Qattara Depression was greatly extended by Ralph Alger Bagnold, a British military commander and explorer, through numerous journeys in the 1920s and 1930s.

" However, in the 1930s other British politicians including Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George also made favourable comments about fascist leaders.

In his report to Hitler about Weserübung, Raeder claimed that the success of the operation was " undoubtedly largely " the work of the capital ships, and argued that the campaign in Norway had " amply confirmed the soundness " ( emphasis in the original ) of the construction policies of the 1930s that favoured capital ships over U-boats and carriers.

Not knowing about their gentle nature, two 1930s movies played on the manta's " fearsome " appearance: 1930's The Sea Bat, starring a pre-Frankenstein Boris Karloff, and 1936's The Sea Fiend, later re-issued as the 1946 Devil Monster.

Politicians during the war wanted to avoid the postwar confusion about veterans ' benefits that became a political football in the 1920s and 1930s.

For example, in 1939, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics surveyed the occupations of about 116, 000 families who had arrived in California in the 1930s.

The book featured a frequent Richler theme: Jewish life in the 1930s and 40s in the neighbourhood of Montreal east of Mount Royal Park on and about St. Urbain Street and Saint Lawrence Boulevard ( known colloquially as " The Main ").

A number of motion pictures in the 1930s, some of them even starring Wallace Beery, repeated the basic story about a man surrendering to drink and redeemed by the love of his long-suffering son.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.