Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afford to build one, and we can't, these days. And then we plan our public buildings and our private buildings. We plan cities now-and towns. But when we talk about planning the things we want to do economically, we are charged with being Communists and fellow travelers...
When young (37) G. Mennen Williams, onetime Princeton oarsman, surprised himself and his fellow Democrats by getting elected governor of Michigan last November, the C.I.O. hurriedly set out to help him run the state. Personable "Soapy" Williams, a New Dealing Grosse Pointe socialite (and an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune) soon had a press secretary handpicked by U.A.W. Chieftain Walter Reuther, and a batch of other officers who had been blessed by the C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Considering that the C.I.O. (530,000 dues-paying members in Michigan) was the biggest group to support him in the campaign...
...government intelligence officer remarked that Markos' affliction was, no doubt, "a small round hole in the head." Although it seemed most probable that he had been executed by his fellow Communists, there was a slight possibility that he might have escaped into Yugoslavia. It made no difference. In one way or another, Markos had been removed from the scene...
...screenplay has been "based" on Anderson's play though the similarity is only in the names of some of the principal characters. Mr. Anderson, along with another fellow, has written the dialogue. He has employed that old device of his to give his characters and his lines a child-like and pristine quality: they speak in the indicative tense (after all, in Those Days had they yet discovered the other tenses?) and without contractions. This sometimes gives the false impression of wisdom to lines that would otherwise seem ordinary...
...another scene, a group of Russian officers invite their French fellow prisoners to the gala opening of a package they have just received from the Czarina. When the package is found to contain books instead of vodka and caviar, the Russians simply set fire...