Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mayor Moore was on the warpath again. To protest making Electra a whistle stop for express trains, he had thousands of plastic whistles molded in the shape of locomotives. He made a trip to the state capital at Austin, passed them out to the governor, the legislature (legislators cheered him admiringly and blew their whistles in chorus) and everybody else he met. Then he demanded a special hearing by the Texas Railroad Commission...
Columbia University's undergraduate newspaper, the Daily Spectator, invited a few distinguished professors to express themselves on a pressing matter of the day: Should the Communist Party be outlawed and should Communist teachers be allowed to teach in U.S. colleges? Last week the Spectator published their answers. None seemed to want to outlaw the party; three out of four were against any categorical ban on teachers. Reasons...
...sales Alleghany has already bought into Portsmouth Steel and Interlake Steamship Co., a Great Lakes ore carrier, and increased its holdings of Pittston Co., one of the world's largest coal producers. Wall Streeters also gossiped that Young was casting a buying eye on Western Union and American Express Co., which he thought he could get cheap. Both would fit nicely into his transportation kingdom. For landing big fish like these, Bob Young was readying...
Still the studious observer of the dilemmas of life, the author of Jean Barois intends to remain true to his own modest self-definition: "An independent writer who . . . escaped the fascination of partisan ideologies, an investigator as objective as is humanly possible, as well as a novelist striving to express the tragic quality of individual lives...
...Names. In Los Angeles, he landed a job as city editor on the run-down Herald, which Hearst had just bought to make war on Millionaire E. T. Earl's evening Express. City Editor Campbell printed his Page One on a green newsprint, and circulation climbed. When the Express imitated his stunt, Campbell headlined: E. T. EARL TURNS GREEN WITH ENVY. The Herald's big break came when the Express tagged Campbell's choice for mayor the candidate of "women of the underworld." Campbell sent reporters out to ask the candidate's clubwomen supporters how they...