Word: independente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overlapping departments under the old Plan B charter and caused doubling on single jobs and padding employees of the independent staffs. Atkinson, to avoid the unpleasantness of wholesale firing, reduced the size of the city staff by waiting for city employees to retire or leave. The vacated posts were then...
The big attraction for two independent sets of Cambridge High and Latin bobby-soxers was lead actor Ricardo Montalban. Suddenly discovering that Montalban was the one who sang "Baby It's Cold Outside" to Esther Williams in a recent MGM aquashow, the teenagers twice held up shooting with autograph battles...
Council also chartered the Radcliffe World Federalists as an independent undergraduate organization and rechartered the Annex French Club. The new group, originally part of the Radcliffe League for Democracy, submitted the required constitution and list of 20 names necessary to become an autonomous club.
The story of the movie industry has long tempted U.S. novelists, and a few writers have brought Hollywood to fictional life e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald in his unfinished elegy to the independent film artist, The Last Tycoon; Budd Schulberg in his acid-etched portrait of a ratty producer, What Makes...
There is no evidence that the party, headed by the independent Salzburg publisher Kraus, has been taken over by Nazi elements. This charge was, of course, leveled at the League by the opposition during the election campaign. It attracted a large number of the votes of the so-called "less...