Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tsaldaris charged that Yugoslavia is taking in guerrillas from Greece, housing, feeding, training and arming them, and sending them back into Greece to fight. Yugoslavia's Ambassador to the U.S., Sava Kosanovic, hotly denied these accusations, argued that Greece's troubles were entirely due to the blunders and unpopularity of the Government...
Only eight copies of Cobban's "Dictatorship" were available for take-home purposes to 986 Government students, many of whom have not yet written a required theme on the book, due after vacation. Miss Louise Rodgers, Union Librarian, announced that there were 16 copies earlier in the week eight having recently disappeared...
...that company workers should be paid from the moment they entered the company's property, not from the actual time they started work. The Supreme Court upheld the principle. But because of varying local conditions, the court left it to the lower courts to determine what payments were due in each individual case for portal-to-portal work. What ran up the liability of companies was the fact that 1) portal-to-portal time was added to the eight-hour working day, and so called for time-and-a-half pay and 2) employes could sue for double wages...
...knew exactly to what degree such sales were due to faith, hope and advertising, and to what degree to U.S. book clubs. The clubs' tremendous sales machines, oiled with the prestigious praise of people like Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Christopher Morley, were built to sell literary goods whether they were silk purses or sows' ears. In the marts of trade, if not of letters, 20 or 30 book clubs were in bustling operation, and the top two-Book-of-the-Month and its tawdrier sister, Literary Guild-together claimed nearly 2,250,000 "members," i.e., consistent buyers...
...between high sales and highbrows was wider than ever-a difference due, in large part, to the fact that the popular writers seemed to dramatize without thinking, and the unpopular writers to think without dramatizing. Nearest U.S. approach to a good combination of thought and drama was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, a novel about the Huey Long regime. Among the best of the rest: Conrad Richter's The Fields, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Christina Stead's Letty Fox, Sholem Asch's East River, Jerome Weidman...