Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopkins fights free-for-all, no holds barred. She kicks 'em when they're down, too. Davis--intelligent, self-denying Bette--turns the other cheek every time except one. (Anyone who is particularly interested in discovering how many times Bette muffed that one scene for the pleasure of the retakes...
He and his company were named in an anti-trust suit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Named with him were 1) I.C.I.'s deputy chairman, Lord Melchett; 2) E. I. du Pont de Nemours, Inc., Board Chairman Lammot du Pont and President Walter Samuel Carpenter Jr.; 3...
In John L. Lewis' fight, it was the War Labor Board whose rules were successfully circumvented. In the steel strike, Franklin Roosevelt had again intervened while the issue was before WLB. In the rail crisis, the National Mediation Board, two emergency panels, and Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson had ceased...
The reporters obediently reported all this. Scareheads about "500,000 casualties in three months" blossomed in the press. In the White House, Secretary Steve Early's telephone began ringing furiously. OWI Director Elmer Davis and the War Department both wanted to know what the hell. Late that evening the...
Six Cooks, No Davis. Every newsman knows that the people are not being given all possible facts about the war which do not involve military security. Some news facts have been suppressed to protect military reputations; more have been withheld or slanted to "protect" U.S. morale. Still others have been...