Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have done a national service in your article on the "Washington Head-Hunters" [TIME, Jan. 24] ... Winchell and Pearson...
Either Secretary Tobin had not done his homework on the law in the case or he did not understand what he had studied, but he tried again. No President, he said, would ever permit the economy of the U.S. "to be brought to its knees in a great national emergency." That didn't have to mean an injunction, he said. "He [the President] might handle it differently." But Tobin could not think what a "different" method might...
...therefore really incredible that the new motion-picture, "Joan of Arc," is such a very bad one. Considering the talent and the story, a worse job could not have been done. It is garish, turgid, and tedious. Its heavy-handedness and stupidity exemplifies much that is wrong with Hollywood. It is Joan of the Arc Lights...
Setting his feet squarely on the edge of his desk, adjusting his green eyeshade and squaring his handkerchief, the Vagabond wet his fingers and started leafing through Holiday magazine. He had done this so often that now the pages leaped up as his thumb drew near, leaped up and fell back until the Chosen Spot appeared. Vag wasted little time with the pictures; the article itself moved him more, for hidden there was a great truth and the more he pondered it, the truer it seemed...
...refusing to parley, said it had no power to affect HLU relations with its distributors, Chastain said. He claimed, however, that during a previous meeting the U.T. manager had telephoned the local RKO office and asked them to restrict further distribution of 16mm films to HLU. This was done before several Film Series officials, according to Chastain. The manager's complaint was based on HLU's alleged competition with the U.T. He protested against the showing of English language films, but was willing for the Liberal Union to show foreign language films like "Ivan the Terrible" and "Shoe Shine...