Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typed," explained an official. "You will sign it first. On Friday evening a car with two of our Communist friends will call for you. All priests will be home then, and you will persuade them to sign . . . You'd better not hedge," he added, pointing to the chief of political police. Then, shifting his line from one of threats to rewards, the Red official promised: "If you cooperate, you'll be made head of the Church in Hungary...
...Religious Front," which campaigns (with little hope of success) for a state based on the law of the Torah. Two of its chief planks: strict observance of the Sabbath, and a ban on importation of nonkosher meat...
Looking them over, bustling little James Parton got an idea. Parton, onetime Harvard cross-country runner ('34) and wartime lieutenant colonel, had been a TIME staffer since 1935, was then Los Angeles bureau chief. He figured that combining the most successful giveaways would be one way to establish a profitable citywide newspaper with ready-made readership and advertising revenue...
...Among them: Moviemakers Mervyn LeRoy and David Loew; Planemaker Donald Douglas; Firestone's Leonard Firestone; TIME Inc.'s Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce. Acting as individuals, Luce and seven other TIME Inc. executives and directors bought a total of 14.6% of the stock...
Last week Bob Considine was ghosting another surefire script for 150 newspapers: the story of Robert E. Stripling, longtime chief investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities. As usual, Considine faced a deadline that would have daunted a less workmanlike writer. The first of his 28, "as told to" articles (average length: 1,800 words) would go to press next week, just a month after he took on the job. As usual, Considine's first version would be the last...