Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moving spirit of the gathering was Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry, the ex-isolationist from Nebraska. Among the conferees were such diehard inheritors of the old isolationist tradition as Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...
Manhattan's classy, glassy Museum of Modern Art owns seven of his pictures, but except for his preoccupation with subject matter that is not conventionally beautiful, there was never anything "modern" about Hopper...
Oysters & Brahms. From 7:30 to 8 NBC was back with music, but no image except the usual billboard giving the station's name and some more coming attractions. At 8, NBC came to life of a sort with Americana, a yeastless televersion of Information, Please...
...camera peered about the House chamber for awhile, finally came to rest on the Truman features and, except for a few blinks from the side, stared at him full-face and close-up throughout the speech...
...various causes: the new British tax (TIME, Aug. 18), a big "Boo!" from Congressman J. Parnell Thomas-Red-hunting committee-and a 15% drop in box office. One reason so few pictures were being made was because Hollywood was not sure of the kind of pictures to make, except that they had to be cheaper. And with the box-office drop-which cut down the long wartime runs of pictures-there had to be more of them, probably...