Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Urged the board minority: "The issue . . . is whether the Guild, to which [Buchanan] has paid his dues, will represent his interests . . . just as a lawyer represents a client with whom he may disagree." Said the majority report: "The contract provides that there shall be no discharge except for just & sufficient cause . . . We believe membership in the Communist Party to be such a cause . . . We do not feel that we can require a newspaper to retain a reporter who no longer has value." It wasn't just a case of which-party-do-you-belong-to, added the report...
...provision seems to rule out Dr. Thomas Parran, former PHS Surgeon General (TIME, Feb. 23), who had been considered a likely choice. Dr. Parran has been careful in his public statements, but Congressmen have accused him of using "extraordinary executive pressure" to stir up public demand for socialized medicine. Except for a six-year term as New York State health commissioner, Dr. Parran, graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, has served in the PHS ever since he finished a one-year internship in 1916. One PHS man cracked of the new bill: "Well, they didn...
...mixed vegetables, 8,000 Ibs. of fresh fish and meat, 36,000 Ibs. of lettuce. One result: Inter-Island's boats are now out of business except for heavy shipping and an occasional junket for honeymooners...
...When she sobers, she is outraged. It is necessary to pretend that the genius is driven to drink by a delinquent son (Butch Jenkins), who is borrowed from an orphanage. And so on. Such busy plotting would barely skin by in a play for high-school amateurs, and everybody except Miss Allyson, who would probably put her whole heart into stuff even thinner, plays it in that slothful spirit. But the picture is good enough to pass an idle hour. It ambles from one easy, half-developed comic idea to another, with few serious dead spots between. Typical gags: Johnson...
...University of Chicago when the Midway was little more than a swampy sandlot. At Harvard he had stood at the head of his class, remained as an instructor after graduating. During his 43 years at the University of Chicago, Lovett joined everything he was invited to join except the Socialist Party. He was a leader of such starry-eyed, leftish setups as the League for Industrial Democracy and the League of American Writers. For one year he was editor of the Dial, a famed fortnightly magazine whose staff included Philosopher John Dewey and Economist Thorstein Veblen; later he spent eight...