Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand it. Maybe those smart managers of Joe's just didn't tell him about the cover. He isn't much of a hand for reading, especially such high-toned rags as yours. But he must have seen it on the newsstands. Anyway Cavalcade, being a horse, couldn't have paid much attention to his cover picture and he got hoodoo'd anyway. How do you explain...
...Krol under the bar and go into Heidon," grunted his sober friend, Wun Lung Gong. "The game isn't till tomorrow and I'll have to Carey you to it, anyhow. That's the waitress...
...cleverly guided camera, she does a top-notch job with "The Last Time I Saw Paris," and in the rest of her numbers manages to do more than her share of scene-stealing. Eleanor Powell, away from the screen for too long, taps and jigs effectively, although she isn't given much to do. These two, aided considerably by some fellows named Kern, Gershwin, and Hammerstein, contribute a hearty portion of sparkling entertainment. The plot--since movies, it seems, must have plots--is bad enough to be annoying, but unobnoxious enough to be ignored. Robert Young struggles to keep...
...persistent pestering by Coordinator Nelson Rockefeller and some gentle prodding by the State Department, little had been done to remove priority red tape. Latin America was losing patience. So were those U.S. officials who had worked long and hard to be Good Neighbors. Said one: "If this red tape isn't broken by the end of October, hemisphere defense is going to start getting sour...
University of Iowa. Said the lowan in September 1940: "Let us not . . . permit ourselves to be led . . . into the belief that war is inevitable for the United States. It isn't inevitable. . . . We must at any cost avoid war." In September 1941: "We agree with Mr. Roosevelt; this is the defense of the Americas. . . . And if it draws us into war upon the seas, then war it shall...