Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caitalism (1937) - which combined a rigorous political iconoclasm with a good deal of intellectual clowning. One of their chief targets was the Sherman Act, which he called a "preaching device." Trusts, said he, are a social necessity, like houses of prostitution ; the Sherman Act was merely intended to express society's disapproval...
William Joseph Donovan never got past the second grade in school. He bummed around his native Chicago for a while, finally got work as a wagon boy for an express company. At 15 he became an organizer for a tough Chicago teamsters' union. That year (1905) the teamsters put on one of the bloodiest general strikes in Chicago's history. Bill Donovan came out of it a proven labor organizer...
...BATH-Cecil Roberts-Macmillian ($3). A sentimental journey along the London-Bath express highway by Briton Cecil Roberts, indefatigable World War I correspondent, novelist, lecturer, editor. A pleasant, journalistic exhumation of such folk as John Milton, Highwayman Dick Turpin, Henry VIII, Novelist Samuel Richardson, Pocahontas, the Duchess of Kingston, who two centuries ago attended a ball wearing only a pair of shoes, a sprig...
...saved her business. Army men, who got to Dover first, had all the girls, so newspapermen spent their evenings playing ping-pong in the hotel basement. Their favorite character was a bloated barrage balloon which they named Sefton Delmer. after a 252-lb. reporter for the London Daily Express. Shot down in flames one day last week, Delmer was their only casualty. Few hours later, Delmer II slowly ascended into the twilight above Dover...
...American people have handsomely supported, showered wealth on me, and now I want to do something to express my gratitude. . . ." So said Ely Culbertson, 49, onetime (1907-13) anarchist and Social Revolutionist in Europe, now longtime U. S. bridge tycoon. His method of expressing his gratitude: running for the Democratic nomination for Congressman-at-large in Connecticut...