Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to express my emphatic support of William W. Paul's opinion on the G.I. terminal leave pay [TIME, Sept...
...would definitely be willing to forego my share of the leave pay to lower the national debt if enough straight-thinking veterans would do the same and effectively express themselves on this important subject to cause the passing of common-sense economy measures by the Congress...
Wrote bespectacled, courtly Ernest Betts (Daily Express), who can be as tough as molybdenum: "A great tragic performance. . . . She has an extraordinary range of expression-from bitter sophistication to tragic emotion, and again, to the softest compassion." Chimed the Daily Graphic's Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a specious play. . . ." Wrote George Bishop of the Daily Telegraph: ". . . Magnificent poise ... the dignity of a queen. . . ." The News Chronicle's hard-eyed Alan Dent: "Eileen Herlie's powerful, central and splendid performance makes us long to see her in something saner." The often hard-boiled Noel Coward said...
When the American Newspaper Guild met in Scranton last June, it served notice that all new contracts must provide a $100 weekly top-minimum for reporters (Herald & Expressmen now get $70*), $50 for employes in other departments. That meant that the Herald & Express would have to shell out a 40% pay boost. To Hearst's 10% offer, the Guild said "no contract-no work," claimed that management's suspension of publication amounted to a lockout. Replied the Herald: "A mass walkout prevents publication. It is not a lockout." At week's end Federal Conciliator Harry C. Malcom...
...London the Daily Express, long rationed to four pages, shed a crocodile tear for the plight of New York's dailies, headlined its paragraph on the shortage: WE KNOW, FELLERS...