Word: deale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was needed now, the President said, was to pump new life into the sagging economy with a series of Fair Deal measures to increase minimum wages, broaden social security, raise farm price supports through the Brannan plan. In essence, his program was a moderate dose of the old New Deal mixture: deficit financing, some brave whistling, some Government pump-priming...
...Charter for the High Commission, published last week, cuts Allied interference in German affairs to a minimum. Except in emergencies, the commission will act only through the federal German government and the eleven Länder (state) governments. Occupation troops remain in their present zones, but henceforth may deal with the Germans only through a Lander Commissioner (appointed by the high commissioner of his zone). The new government will join the OEEC and sign an ERP agreement with the U.S. Instead of the past separate patterns in each zone, occupation policy will become uniform throughout Western Germany...
...Beery, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. During the '30's, while older film empires tottered, M-G-M saw to it that its parent, Loew's Inc., never skipped a dividend. For his pains, L.B. got 10% of the studio profits-a deal that made him a longtime fixture atop the annual list of U.S. big income-earners. (He now gets 7%.) He has earned his pay not so much for making good pictures as for picking good men for the job and keeping an eye on them. Until his death...
...Mencken Chrestomathy is Mencken's own selection from his out-of-print writings. He has arranged them to deal broadly, and of course irreverently, with morals, women, statesmen, the South, literature and more than a score of other subjects. Worthier books have been published this year, but few that offer even a sizable fraction of the plain reading pleasure to be found in the chrestomathy (i.e., selection of passages-chrestos, useful; mathein, to learn). Even now, when many of the earlier heresies of the Sage of Baltimore have faded to archaic jeerings, he still has the power to annoy...
...true sense he was, like Thoreau, a radical. But he was also a political conservative, to the dismay of the assorted pinks and reds who once thrilled to his lambastings of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, but were forced to turn on him when he struck out at the New Deal, socialism and communism...