Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lleras would walk into the Union's white-columned Washington headquarters with a critical eye cocked. Recently, Newspaperman Lleras' Semana (Week) referred to former Director Leo S. Rowe's stewardship of the Union as "26 years of banquets." It stated that Rowe had been "a discreet agent for all North American policies in connection with the continent, whether of aggressive penetration or of good neighborliness." Lleras could be expected to back a more representative position...
Sullivan, who is also secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Trades & Labor Congress, had nothing against unions. What angered Sullivan, Irish-born and onetime Roman Catholic, were the Communists in the unions. This was an eye-opener because Sullivan had long been a party-liner and, everybody felt pretty sure, a party member. In his roar of rage, Sullivan confirmed these suspicions. He said he had joined the Communist Party two years after he began organizing the C.S.U. in 1935. He led C.S.U. in its first successful strike in 1938, built up membership to about 5,000 in Great Lakes, river...
Middle-aged cinemaddicts enjoyed a pleasant flashback to the windblown-bob era. Clara Bow, now a rancher's wife and mother of two, made a brief comeback, of a sort. Handsomer to the camera's eye than she was in the blowsy 20s, the onetime "It" Girl regained the spotlight as a result of another woman's triumph. A listener who managed to identify Clara's voice in a radio contest won $17,590 in prizes (including an airplane, a refrigerator, an automobile, a furnace, a fur coat, maid service for a year...
...worth, Robert Montgomery deserves a pat on the back for breaking away from Hollywood formula method. It is a pity he chose the most conventional of movie plots, and so could not make the novelty and the frequent nice touches rise above the sluggishness of the whole. The camera eye technique clearly has possibilities in movies that are naturally suited to subjectivity, but in the old missing-woman and private cop hash, it is at best incongruous...
...Anthony as leader of the fight for U.S. women's suffrage, founder of the National League of Women Voters; in New Rochelle, N.Y. After the suffragettes' 1920 victory (the 19th Amendment), she looked around for new arenas, crusaded vigorously for world peace, meanwhile kept a sharp eye on women's rights at home & abroad...