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Word: fitzgeralds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Fitzgerald is a jolly fat man who is president of the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers and the stooge for the union's Communist-line bosses. Last week he gave a good demonstration of a now familiar dodge of proCommunists who are called on to explain their stand. Summoned before a subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee, Fitzgerald tilted back in his chair and became blandly uninformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He's a Duck | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...think the Communist Party was just a political party? Said Fitzgerald: "I don't know what to believe about it. There are too many conflicting statements. I am not too familiar with the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He's a Duck | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Chairman Charles Kersten of Wisconsin tried to familiarize him with the general idea by reading from Stalin's Problems of Leninism. "I'm afraid you're trying to indoctrinate me," Fitzgerald broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He's a Duck | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...said Fitzgerald with a grin. He added: "I don't know the first thing about Communism, I don't care what Stalin or Lenin said. I know nothing of the policies of the Soviet Union . . . I'm just a poor guy in the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He's a Duck | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...report on mating customs of ancient Egyptians. Here the reader can find such characteristic creatures of the jazz age as the hot & cold flapper ("There were two kinds of men, those you played with and those you might marry") described in the elegant, slightly elegiac prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald; the frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced the time every 15 seconds"); the blonde whom gentlemen preferred and who was thrilled to see in Paris "the historical spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wilted '20s | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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