Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department apologists for the U.S.'s indecisive China policy. USIS painstakingly reported that Wedemeyer had called Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "a benevolent despot"; it did not add that Wedemeyer also declared that Chiang was "a fine character" and "the logical leader of China today," who needed U.S. help and should get it. Nothing was said to China, either, about Wedemeyer's recommendation of military...
...better alternative, the economist suggested giving taxpayers rebates on that part of their income which they saved. "This kind of tax reduction," he said, "would stimulate saving and thus help hold down the cost of living...
Coach Priddy's departure for Europe Friday as a defenseman on the A.H.A. Olympic team certainly will not help Yardling chances, although varsity coach John Chase will devote full time to the freshman cause in Priddy's absence...
...word. "The Bishop's Wife" is minor whimsy. It shows how Dudley enables the bishop to get enough money to build a cathedral. It then shows how Dudley persuades both the bishop and an unpleasant donor that the money could be more wisely used if it were spent to help the poor and the suffering. It then shows how Dudley saves the bishop's marriage from a sorry fate. And all the time, it maintains a nice comical relationship between Dudley, the bishop, and the bishop's wife...
...first place, the U.S. is a land of such glowing opportunity that no candidate need bother to have a brain. Senator Melvin G. Ashton (William Powell) cannot even spell-but, with the help of a smart pressagent (Peter Lind Hayes) and a bit of blackmail, he very nearly makes the White House...