Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictator usually lets his opponents beef loudly & publicly. He beefs right back at them just as loudly. "How many years as president will satisfy you?" shouted one political critic. Answer: "No less than...
...first time, an inclusive exhibition of those paintings was shown last week in Washington's National Gallery of Art. "American Battle Paintings 1776-1918" (116 pictures) was organized by Critic Lincoln Kirstein and the National Gallery's Mrs. Margaret Garrett, jointly sponsored by the National Gallery and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, where it will be shown next fall...
...Agard Wallace, and Florence Kling Wallace, 25: their first child, the Vice President's first grandchild, a daughter, Joan Brooks; in Des Moines. Weight: 7 lbs. 10½ oz. Engaged. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 45, onetime (1937-'40) British War Secretary, since then an outspoken House of Commons critic of Winston Churchill; and Cynthia Elliott, British war nurse captured in France by the Nazis in 1940, repatriated last year from a prison camp. Married. Elizabeth Cannell Bradley, 20, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Bradley, commander of U.S. ground forces in France; and 2nd Lieut. Henry Shaw Beukema...
Upton Sinclair, 65, vegetarian, moralist, Socialist, muckraker, politician, agnostic, Californian, abstainer, feminist, movie producer, violinist, physical culturist, antiFascist, antiCommunist; friend of Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein; one of the most prolific U.S. authors (67 books, 500 pamphlets); prohibitionist son of a bibulous father and twice-married critic of American marital habits, last week gave book-length vent to his latest enthusiasm: Franklin Roosevelt...
...Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity of the war is run with as little waste." Even New York's Roosevelt-baiting John Taber, No. 1 congressional critic of OWI, supported the boost in appropriations. Most impressive display to Republicans: a copy of a Turkish newspaper, containing a smashing big picture and full biography of Tom Dewey, which the OWI had sent to the paper...