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2 giorni fa · In 1921, George Lansbury, the Labour mayor of the neighbouring borough of Poplar, and future Labour Party leader, launched the Poplar Rates Rebellion; a campaign of disobedience seeking to equalise the poor relief burden across all the London boroughs. Attlee, who was a personal friend of Lansbury, strongly supported this.
4 giorni fa · Box office. $29.7 million. The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). An adaptation of L. Frank Baum 's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.
2 giorni fa · These wartime memoirs apart, the first CO memoir to be published in the inter-war years was probably George Baker’s The Soul of a Skunk: The Autobiography of a Conscientious Objector.(13) Dedicated to his son Paul, ‘… that he may know what his Daddy did in the war’, he describes it as ‘… the story of a man who, then not much more than a boy, during the Great War did his bit for ...
5 giorni fa · George Lansbury (1859–1940), the great Labour politician and journalist, served on Poplar Borough Council from its inception in 1900 until his death, twice being Mayor, and he was also a member of the LCC from 1912.
4 giorni fa · Angela Lansbury † Michel Legrand † Jack Lemmon † John Lithgow; Kenny Loggins; Frank Marshall; Max Martin; Steve Martin; Bette Midler; Liza Minnelli; Lin-Manuel Miranda; Paul Newman † Laurence Olivier † Leslie Odom Jr. Al Pacino; Trey Parker; Dolly Parton; Benj Pasek; Justin Paul; Christopher Plummer † Sidney Poitier † André ...
1 giorno fa · Why are there two Gaslight movies? Ashfaan. May 28, 2024. A remake of the 1940 British film of the same name directed by Thorold Dickinson, Cukor's version had a larger scale and budget than the earlier film, and lends a different feel to the material. To avoid confusion with the first film, Cukor's version was originally titled The Murder in ...
5 giorni fa · George Lansbury (1932-1935) - As fascism was on the rise across Europe, Lansbury's pacificism was in clear opposition to the majority in his party and he resigned, becoming the only leader in the first 100 years to never contest a general election.
