Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Big Ed was trammeled and sad. In fact, he was kidnaped. While Chicago's press whooped with an enthusiasm mislaid since the Capone era, brother George Jones flew in from Mexico to round up a reported $250,000 in ransom money. Automatically, city officials began another cleanup of unprotected policy peddlers. From the North Shore to Bronzeville, the Negro heartland, the kidnaping was poolroom talk...
...staffers called "Munsey proclamations" appeared with regularity on the face of the Sun. Great ghosts still haunt its dim corridors. Courtly Keats Speed, a great-nephew of Poet John Keats, still puts out his cigaret when he enters the newsroom, in habitual deference to a rule of the Munsey era, long since repealed. He and City Editor Edmond Bartnett, after 25 years, still address each other as "Mr." Sun employes, who own part of the paper's stock, have their own little union instead of a Newspaper Guild unit...
...purpose is to raise the standard of living of the millions of Southern workers and create a new era of lasting prosperity in the land of Dixie. . . . We come here not as invaders from the North but as old friends. . . . Nothing can stop us, neither the opposition of reactionary management nor the rivalry of the Communistic dual movement. . . . The workers of the South are going to organize. Employer resistance will only redouble our efforts. . . . Let me give Southern industry this warning-cooperate with us or fight for your life against Communist forces...
...week, however, written statements had ground out of the White House mill on meat controls, surplus property, traffic safety, diplomatic missions, water development. White House reporters, inundated with handouts, thought they saw the paper ghost of another era-the White House spokesman...
Critical standards in ballet seem to have gone the way of all the others in this amusement-hungry post-war era--if the reactions of an audience that packed the Opera House for the benefit of the Hugh Cabot Memorial Fund Tuesday night can be accounted typical. The obviously eager crowd cheered shoddy performance after performance, dull choreography, and unimaginative costumes and sets...