Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electrical workers, bakers & confectioners, vehicle builders, foundry workers), the Commies tried first to defeat a motion condemning unofficial strikes. Pale, shock-haired Communist Abe Cohen of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers leaped to the rostrum and attacked the motion as "a challenge to the integrity of the rank & file and an insult to their intelligence...
Greta Garbo, the secretive Swede who has been in & out of Hollywood for 22 years, finally came to a decision. She pulled on some slacks and an old jacket, and dropped into the Los Angeles Federal Building to file her first papers, for U.S. citizenship...
Toward the end Burke was spending much of his time grappling with Egyptian bureaucracy. Last week, when he got to Rome, he was able to file an uncensored cable covering the events of his final weeks in Egypt: "One morning early in July a tarbooshed plainclothesman appeared at TIME'S office. I was to report to the Cairo governate. There I was ushered in to see another plainclothesman in what I presumed was the security police office. I asked him who he was and why he had summoned me and he said, 'You have applied...
...behind the scenes in Albany, Dewey campaigners were hard at work. Under the direction of State Budget Director John Burton and Banking Superintendent Elliott Bell, a corps of researchers, phrasemakers, specialists, and advisers dug for campaign fodder. One elaborate stunt: a card-index file of every Dewey pronouncement, to be used as a guide for all G.O.P. orators...
...Smith a series of suggested clarifications. He and the others tried to work them out with Foreign Minister Molotov. For a week they wrangled over shades of meaning. A Washington official described the process: "Molotov insists on leaving a few fishhooks in the agreement. We're trying to file the barbs off them." At week's end, they were still trying...