Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle out at whatever cost. He had ordered John Steelman, his "labor adviser" and Lewis' solicitous friend, to stand in the corner. The President conferred principally with young Clark Clifford, his special counsel, who seconded Mr. Truman's assertion that now was the time to stand firm. That was the word Clifford passed along to Interior Secretary Julius Krug and Attorney General Tom Clark...
Fordham's law school, came to the Government service after eight years with the Wall Street firm of Cahill, Gordon, Zachry & Reindel...
...Mclntosh is a youthful woman with bobbed, reddish-gold hair and a set of firm opinions. A basic one: it is "tragic" that so many educated women "settle down into domesticity and never raise a peep again." Mrs. Mclntosh speaks on this subject with impressive authority. Educated at Bryn Mawr, Johns Hopkins and Cambridge, she began to teach in 1922, married ten years later. Now the mother of five children, she has done an unruffled job of juggling career and family...
...confused plot focuses on Alan Garraway's hatred for his brother Michael, played by Robert Mitchum, supposed to be the unknown quantity till the end of the play. He is either 1) a Bunthorne-like playboy who absconded with the firm's funds before disappearing in the Army 4-5 years before, and is being grudgingly protected by his magnanimous and eminently successful brother Alan; or 2) he is a wronged and heroic character who really does like poetry, women, and the finer things of life, and has been murdered by his jealous brother Alan...
...Firm foundations for Protestantism's new trend were laid at the Oxford and Edinburgh conferences of 1937, which gathered the most comprehensive assemblage of official church representatives in 400 years. In 1939 the three major denominations of U.S. Methodism merged into one church; in 1940 the Evangelical Synod of North America and the Reformed Church officially united. In 1942 the American and United Lutheran churches recognized a "fellowship of pulpit and altar," stopped just short of organic union. Recently the U.S. Quakers healed their 119-year-old Hicksite-Orthodox schism (TIME, Nov. 18). Negotiations are currently under way between...