Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...above all, he wanted to stiffen the U.S. Conciliation Service, make it the backbone of his Department. From Chicago he summoned handsome, energetic Regional WLB Chairman Edgar L. Warren, made him boss conciliator, began to talk of better pay and better men in the conciliation setup...
...differences were more than alphabetical. Russia, not a member of I.F.T.U., had the biggest bloc of votes in W.F.T.U. For reasons closely connected with this fact, the A.F. of L. stayed with the ghost of the old organization and had no truck with...
With the support of France's Léon Jouhaux and Mexico's Vicente LombardoToledano, the conference elected Louis Saillant, French left-wing Resistance leader, as secretary-general to balance Citrine...
Critic Henry L. Mencken slashed at U.S. smugness and provincialism and fixed the arbiters of its life and bad taste in a cruel epithet: the booboisie. And Poet E. E. Cummings mocked...
...mass production of doctors and mass practice and humbuggery of medicine, a romantic apotheosis of the medical scientist. Dodsworth (1929), the esthetic and amatory adventures of Samuel Dodsworth, automobile tycoon, and his wife in the cultured lands of Europe was a modern Innocents Abroad. Elmer Gantry (dedicated to Henry L. Mencken) was a rich caricature of a corrupt and ranting preacher (as he might appear to the village atheist). In The Man Who Knew Coolidge, a superb tour de force, Lewis used his remarkable talent for mimicking U.S. speech to let George F. Babbitt (this time called Lowell Schmaltz) reveal...