Word: emanuel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessmen who took paid leave from their jobs to work for the Government in World Wars I and II were called dollar-a-year men. This time they are called WOCs-for "without compensation." When Emanuel Celler's House subcommittee announced recently that it was going to check up on Washington's WOCs, it got a mysterious tip. The Congressmen, said the tipster, should look into some of the steel allocations made by the National Production Authority...
Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell told the House of Commons last week how gallantly the men of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment had died in Korea (TIME. May 7). Up rose M.P. Raymond Blackburn, independent ex-Laborite,with a searing question: Why had Britain supplied Red China with thousands of tons of iron & steel, vehicles, aircraft parts, rubber? Wasn't it "high time we ceased to supply the people against whom our boys are fighting...
Lyons was brought before Judge John C. Knox at the request of Emanuel Bloch, attorney for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atom spies sentenced to death (TIME, April 16). The Government, said Bloch, was conspiring to break down Mrs. Rosenberg and get a "false" confession from her -and Columnist Lyons was part of the conspiracy. The reason Bloch thought so was that since February (shortly before their trial) no less than 20 "leaks" on the case had appeared in "The Lyons Den," syndicated in 102 papers. Sample item: "If [the convicted Rosenbergs] talk, they still can save themselves . . ." Attorney Bloch wanted...
Another effort to smoke Bevan out into the open was made by Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell, once a Labor left-winger himself. At Newcastle last week, Shinwell denounced Bevan in a speech, urged him to quit the government. Shin-well did not use Bevan's name, but everyone knew whom he meant. Said Shinwell: "Those who say 'I am the person who counts, never mind the others' are better outside the party...
...federal district court jury in Fort Scott, Kans. found Publisher Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (10? Little Blue Books) guilty on two counts of income-tax evasion: 1945, when he reported an income of $9,000 instead of $60,000; and 1947, with $8,000 rather than...