Word: alberts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Albert Fitzgerald is a jolly fat man who is president of the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers and the stooge for the union's Communist-line bosses. Last week he gave a good demonstration of a now familiar dodge of proCommunists who are called on to explain their stand. Summoned before a subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee, Fitzgerald tilted back in his chair and became blandly uninformed...
...Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913) he probed into the personal motives of the Founding Fathers themselves, suggested that as men of property they had been privately interested in a charter that would protect their own wealth. To older historians, such an approach was blasphemous. Harvard's grizzled Albert Bushnell Hart declared the book "little short of indecent...
...congress received a message from G. B. Shaw, who said: "I never send messages. This is final. I'm sure Albert Einstein could say everything about peace but I can't. Messages are boring...
...congress released a message signed by Albert Einstein. In the U.S., Einstein said that the congress had garbled a letter he wrote last July, suppressed a message he sent last week...
Mary Lasker has long been used to handling money; she started a dress pattern business (Hollywood Patterns) which boomed for 17 years. She was also a successful art dealer (she divorced her first husband, Art Dealer Paul Reinhardt, in 1934). In 1940 she married Albert D. Lasker; two years later he liquidated his rich advertising firm, Lord & Thomas, to busy himself with good works in science and medicine. Both the Laskers are interested in "finding out what is wrong, then helping people who try to clean up the mess...