Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Business Administration, became an oil-exploration engineer, worked for the governments of Iran, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil. He founded the United Geophysical Co. in Pasadena and stayed on as president after it was bought out by Union Oil of California. He was also an airline engineer (with Western Air Express, a forerunner of the present T.W.A.). He is now a director of four or five companies. Although he is, not surprisingly, a Republican, he has taken no active part in politics, has favored no particular faction of the G.O.P...
...left-wing Socialists are setting up a hue and cry about "Guns for the Huns"-not bothering, of course, to point out that the Communists have already armed East Germany. In Lord Beaverbrook, the maverick Tory press lord, the Socialists have an unexpected ally. His big Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) is so het up that it caricatures Chancellor Adenauer as a Mephistopheles surrounded by Junker (see cut), and not content with whatever debatable influence his editorials have, Beaverbrook has been buying up billboard space and ads in rival British papers to further his campaign...
...unsettling. If he persisted in publishing it, he would be fired from his ?2,200-a-year ($6,160) government job. Angrily, Lord Russell decided to go ahead, "whatever the cost to my career," and the air was rent with cries of government censorship. Promptly Beaverbrook's Daily Express proclaimed last week that it would publish daily extracts from "the Book They Tried...
...When competent Christians seek to express the worth of personality in political institutions, they speak of 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people' ... In this insistence, we intend to stay together...
...part of Europe's. Most of Washington's open-air sculptures, such as Begni del Piatta's baroque memorial on the Potomac (opposite), are just handsome. A handful, such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens' quiet Grief (p. 72), merit long study. What Saint-Gaudens meant to express, according to recent research, was not grief at all but "the intellectual acceptance of the inevitable." The capital as a whole attests the fact that Washington, L'Enfant, and a host of later men foresaw the inevitable greatness of the U.S., accepted it, and planned accordingly...