Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Out of the Weeds. Their job had not been easy. In their report, they assailed both labor and management for playing fast & loose with statistics. In contrast to the uncritical respect which the Administration had shown in the past for labor's philosophy, Daugherty, Rosenman and Cole time & again...
Through four Ohio counties last week, Senator Robert Taft methodically toted his political sample bag, dispensing his own brand of anti-Fair Deal specifics. He had abandoned his upturned Panama for a nondescript grey fedora. Grinning, never argumentative, spouting statistics and shaking his forefinger, he trotted from Cleveland to Parkman...
The split between workers as party members and workers as union members was not allowed to break up the Bridlington show; conflicts were carefully covered up in compromise resolutions. Explained one delegate: "Barkis isn't always willing, but he usually has to say he is." So, with their eyes...
Old Hands. Producers also moaned about the scarcity of good scripts. It was an old lament, but this time it rang true. Many established playwrights seemed to be between plays. Of shows hopefully announced for production so far, only a handful involved old hands: Terence Rattigan's Double Bill...
The two Massachusetts magistrates sent to Salem Village for preliminary examinations faced a difficult problem: what constituted evidence of witchcraft? The Bible mentioned it in the same breath with sodomy and idolatry, but neglected to define it. After due deliberation the magistrates declared that a devil's "teat" or...