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...covers Henry Wallace just as you'd cover a person with a cloak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Group Reviews Legislation To Prosecute Wallace; Senators Soften Labor Curbing Provisions | 4/15/1947 | See Source »

...chosen from the top two. Then, suddenly, 58 new votes-all from Talmadge's home county of Telfair-put Hummon back into the running. Ever since then, thoughtful Georgians have been wondering about those 58 votes. Last week they found out. After a month of cloak-&-dagger sleuthing, the Atlanta Journal splashed a well-documented story of forged ballots across Page One. It was one of the year's notable journalistic exploits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Southern Exposure | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...road to industrial peace lies not in weakening bus in strengthening unions. Union "responsibility" is a worthy goal if the term means eliminating the racketeering and undemocratic practices that are found in some unions; but a drive for "responsibility" is too often used to cloak a drive to weaken or climinate all unions. The legislation now being considered by Congress will not remove the causes of labor disputes--a fact that will become all too evident if the laws being contemplated are enacted. Collective bargaining stands as the only way of settling labor disputes--bargaining between equals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/6/1947 | See Source »

...owned a million-dollar-a-year business, but he was 65, and knew that he was too sick to run it any longer. So Brooklynite Morris Hirshfield gave up the E. Z. Walk Mfg. Co. (boudoir slippers), as he had once given up his cloak & suit business. He was free to paint at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: You Too Can Paint | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Twelve lovely aspirant ingenues clothed themselves in a green cloak of envy at Sanders Theatre yesterday, as Mendy Weisgal '45, 1G of the Vets' Workshop proudly strapped on medieval armor in an attempt to grant George Bernard Shaw's telegraphed desire for a masculine Saint Joan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls Going Green with Jealousy as Weisgal Flaunts His Tresses in Tryouts for 'St. Joan' | 2/8/1947 | See Source »

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