Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moments, and is ably abetted by wry Tom Ewell and by Loring Smith, whose Senator McKinley is rather more credible than the current vogue. But the play's high spot was the curtain call comedy, and the Messrs. Rodgers and Hammerstein--backers this time--won't be able to count on enough of them to make it quite worthwhile...
...tennis, Davis Cup Hero Ted Schroeder, previously unranked for 1946, was awarded the valuable No. 2 amateur rating, ahead of Frank Parker. The balloting involved as many proxies as a U.S. Steel board meeting. Final count...
...Franco been a little less sly, and Hitler and Mussolini a little less stupid, Spain would have joined the Axis, Sir Samuel believes. It was largely luck that Spain stayed out and pretended to be neutral-luck, plus Allied economic bait, plus the sympathies of a few Spaniards, notably Count Francisco Gomez Jordana, for two years (1942-44) Franco's Minister for Foreign Affairs...
Tears over Taxes. The President figured that he could count on Congress to raise postal rates so as to wipe out a $352 million Post Office deficit. Then, he declared proudly, the budget would be balanced-for the first time since 1930 (see.PRESS). It would also show a $202 million surplus if revenues reached $37.7 billion on the basis of present taxes...
...typical incident leading to that realization occurred in the early '205 in Kiev (where Comrade Balabanov, then a Secretary in the Communist International, was living). A mysterious Count Pirro appeared as "Brazilian Ambassador," let it be known that he would hire only non-Bolsheviks for his consular staff, that he would grant Brazilian passports to anyone wanting to leave Russia for political reasons. Anti-Communists flocked to his office, and were promptly arrested by the Cheka. Pirro himself was a Cheka agent. Outraged by such police methods, Balabanov went straight to Lenin to protest. She reports in her memoirs...