Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well. Franklin Roosevelt has never shown a disposition to surround himself with strong men in high positions. His Cabinet looked weak even in peacetime. Now, least of all, do most Americans want their war policies to be shaped by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the lady in the funny hat; or by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., who got his job via gentleman farming and publication of the American Agriculturist; or by Postmaster General Frank Walker...
...magician trying to pull a hat out of a rabbit, a seaman shaving in a hurricane, slapsticky Lou Costello is a successful clown. But most of it is South Sea stuffing, Hollywood style, with only two notable exceptions: a breakaway tune called Vingo Jingo (authors: Don Raye and Gene DePaul), and radio's vibrant-voiced Nan Wynn, now visible for the first time after her anonymous role as Rita Hayworth's singing voice in My Gal Sal (TIME...
Cash Payment. Next fall cotton went above 90?. When settlement time came, Old Man Town set before each of his hands a check for several hundred dollars (only a scrap of what he owed them) and a hatful of quarters and half-dollars. He told them to take their pick. "The Negro reached for the hat. 'All dis mine?' he said. 'Wait,' said Old Man Town. 'I fergot to take out my half...
...scheme is that many a scrap owner may sniff higher prices, hold out for still fancier prices. Meanwhile WPB had its Industrial Salvage Committees going hot & heavy in 400 U.S. cities. Chief argument: patriotism. Thus Manhattan milliners surprised everybody, chipped in 150 tons of scrap (partly from eight huge hat-making presses); Maryland State officials collected a batch of square-cornered World War I tanks, started them on their last mile into a roaring steel furnace...
...tiny stage of a straw-hat theater in Cambridge, Mass, last week Paul Robeson made his first U.S. appearance in Othello. After seeing him, scholars might still insist that Shakespeare meant Othello for a Moor and not a Negro. But drama lovers well might ask why, having played it twelve years ago in London, Robeson waited so long to play it over here. For in spite of muffing certain speeches-his lines sometimes throbbed awkwardly-and overacting certain scenes-his Grand Manner sometimes burst a seam-Robeson gave a performance that even at its worst was vivid and that...