Word: becks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soyer declared Hollywood "an artist's paradise"-fine, free models, flunkies to run errands, set-men to build easels, chauffeurs at beck & call. When he asked whether it would be possible to get some paint rags, a mountain of rags appeared almost before the words were out of his mouth...
Less enthusiastic was the reaction of the Catholic editors, in particular such liberal editors as Anthony John Beck of the Archdiocese-owned Michigan Catholic. They suspected that one of MacManus' central purposes might be to crack down on pro-labor tendencies in a large section of the Catholic press...
When Foreign Minister Josef Beck and other leaders of a beaten Poland fled from Warsaw last September, they left in a hurry. According to the German Foreign Office, they left behind them some very interesting documents. Last week the Germans published these documents-day after Sumner Welles, just back from Europe, made his undivulged report to the President...
...White Book, entitled "Polish Documents Bearing on Events That Led Up to the War," they purported to be memoranda from Polish diplomats (Count Jerzy Potocki, Ambassador to the U. S.; Jules Lukasiewicz, Ambassador to France; Count Edward Raczynski. Ambassador in London; Trade Councilor Jan Wszelaki) to their chief, Mr. Beck. They reported conversations held with U. S. Ambassador to France William Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Kennedy. Of the conversations the documents reported...
...British Laborite journalist named H. N. Brailsford wrote a book called A League of Nations. His main ideas came from a struggling organization called the League of Nations Society, founded by a handful of cool-headed idealists in 1915. Compared with such Hun-hating best-sellers as James M. Beck's The Evidence in the Case, such trench life thrillers as Arthur Guy Empey's Over the Top, Brailsford's book was a commercial fizzle. But one of its readers was Woodrow Wilson (Senator Borah sent him a copy), who drew heavily...