Word: first
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Joseph, in association with Harry Brandt) is one of the most vitriolic plays ever written. A man who suffered from, quarreled with and hated women because he loved them, who felt perpetually persecuted and all but went mad, Swedish Playwright Strindberg wrote The Father as a testimonial to his first marriage. Conceived in loathing and dedicated to the proposition that all women are created evil, The Father, first produced in 1887, inspired a new theatrical naturalism...
Parent & Taxpayer. Last week, sparked by William McCarthy, the United Secularists were fighting their first court case. Atheist McCarthy had been thinking about it ever since the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled on the suit of Mrs. Vashti McCollum against the board of education of Champaign, Ill. Atheist McCollum had sued to prevent the board from making school premises available for religious instruction of pupils, and the Supreme Court had upheld her (TIME, March 22, 1948). The decision had set in question the released-time systems of almost every state, but for the organized Secularists this was not enough...
...Britain (1928-36), confidant (as Imperial Household Minister) to Emperor Hirohito and father-in-law of the Emperor's brother, Prince Chichibu; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. As a moderate, he was hated by the military, unofficially cleared of war responsibility by the Allies, elected first president in 1947 of Japan's.new upper house, the House of Councilors...
Died. Baron James Ensor, 89, Belgium's major modern artist, noted for his masked, fantastic figures; in Ostend, Belgium. Pre-Surrealist Ensor, little known and seldom shown in the U.S., was, like fellow pioneers Gauguin and Van Gogh, among the first to go beyond impressionist painting...
Everybody Happy. But Alfred H. Williams, president of Philadelphia's Federal Reserve Bank, the first witness to appear before the committee in person, thought differently. The inflationary forces in the U.S., he said, were due in large part to the Government's "zeal for social justice," which has led to the writing of too many blank checks to meet demands of "all claimants in such areas as agriculture, veterans' affairs, housing and local depressed areas...