Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When critics point to the many racketeers who hold office in A. F. of L. unions, William Green cries that he is being crucified. His alibi: that the Federation lacks disciplinary power over its autonomous international unions, can wield the big stick only over the Federal unions directly affiliated with it. Last week Mr. Green had a chance to use his stick...
...story goes when Lardner first saw the show on Broadway, he was convinced that it was terrible. He acknowledged as his own only one line of the script. He underestimated both the play and his part in its conception. Elmer spoke Ring Lardners language, proved as durable as his Alibi Ike. Last week, with a few of its gags refurbished, Elmer the Great was in the groove again at the Cape Playhouse at Dennis, Mass...
...such a fanciful swap could be made-fine! But let no such idea serve Reader Watters as unwittingly callous alibi for not giving to the Red Cross. Twice $20,000,000 would be little enough for relief in Nazi-conquered territory-not only for desperately needed food but for life-&-death hospital supplies. No International Red Cross relief goes to Germany-at the Nazis' own request. Nor should anyone naively imagine that Red Cross relief will break the blockade against Hitler...
Last week there were signs that a new determination had come to the U. S. Its form varied-there was determination to aid the Allies, determination to speed U. S. defense, determination to destroy whoever got in the way. There were casualties: >Dead was the politicos' alibi that "the country" could not grasp the issues of world conflict. Wrote steady-minded Columnist Ray Clapper from Kansas City...
About four that morning Bigger murders Mary in her bedroom, carries her downstairs in a trunk, burns her body in the furnace, conceives an alibi to implicate her Communist lover. Bigger's explanation to himself is that the murder was an accident, would not have happened if she had not passed out on rum. Shortly before he is caught in a rooftop chase he murders his girl Bessie with a brick, throws her down an airshaft...