Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene where a man's long-lost wife (Miss England) bursts in and stops him from fornicating with a prostitute, because the prostitute is his step-daughter. I am not giving anything away in revealing this, because the Stepfather (Mr. Reinhardt) and Stepdaughter (Miss Landey) spend a good deal of time standing around chewing the fat about this scene before they ever get to playing it. Perhaps because every aspect of the plight of the Characters is so elaborately discussed, they seem not so much melodramatic as sordid--in spite of a haunting, Flying Dutchman quality in their eternal fixedness...
...bill without its attached amendments to the Taft-Hartley act, an indication of organized labor's general support for moves to control locals and give the government an opportunity to clean up individual cases of corruption. But in making his statement, Meany made one statement which reflects a great deal of labor's present attitude. Wherever there is corruption in the unions, he said, there will be some other corruption, either in management or in the police...
...Coming of the New Deal, Schlesinger...
...years that he has held the job, pleasant, retiring Murray Snyder has quietly become one of the most contentious figures in Washington. The military men, contractors to the Department of Defense, and newsmen who deal with Snyder are close to unanimous in the opinion that he stands as a major obstacle in the way of sensible and constructive reporting of the U.S. defense posture. More than a year ago V. M. Newton Jr., managing editor of the Tampa Tribune and chairman of the Advancement of Freedom of Information Committee of Sigma Delta Chi, laid a bitter protest against "Pentagon secrecy...
...international character of Guterma's operations was also limelighted last week when Canadian Stock Broker J. Ernest Savard of Savard & Hart was suspended from Montreal and Toronto stock exchanges because his firm's capital had fallen short of requirements after involvement in a Guterma deal...