Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME Magazine [April 28] came with the same mail, and I looked through it mechanically without much understanding. But suddenly I stopped: I saw my father and my mother ... in Koerner's My Parents, and I read of "a painting which spoke the timeless reproach of the dead, of those who would never again turn to face their persecutors...
Their duty as the first office-holders under the new constitution, the Council felt, was "to carry out that constitution to the letter in order to establish precedent for future Councils and prevent any section from becoming dead letter...
Since it is the first group to work under the new constitution, the present Council feels that it has a peculiar responsibility to see that none of the new provisions become dead letters. While it is rather late in the term for such a move, the removal is justified because both men affected by the novel proceeding were elected in last February's "rump" election and the passage of time was required for them to demonstrate their lack of interest in Council work. In an ordinary year the effect of the new constitutional provision would be to eject members...
Automakers Henry J. Kaiser and Joseph W. Frazer had "news which no corporation likes to bring to its stock holders." They were dead right. The news was that Kaiser-Frazer Corp. had lost $19,284,680.83 in 1946. The loss was huge. But K-F said it was not quite as bad as it looked. For one thing, K-F had written off in one year the cash it had spent for engineering, design, and preparation for auto production. How much this was K-F did not say. Ordinarily auto companies spread these costs over a longer period...
...film's star (Michael Redgrave) is something more special: a Czech who has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp, and is hiding under the identity of a dead English officer, whose wife (Rachel Kempson) he falls in love with by correspondence. The picture patiently tells the story of all these men-and a few others-from the time of their capture by the Germans in June 1940 to the hour of their release...