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...August 1949, the report continued, Publisher Frank Gannett and the Bank of Manhattan had kindly lent Hanley the $28,500 which he needed to pay up the debt in full. But when he knuckled down to Dewey, his patron and another anti-Dewey Republican, Congressman W. Kingsland Macy, were not pleased. It was then that Hanley wrote Macy The Letter, a lugubrious note of apology and explanation...
Much of the picture is easily the best job yet done on the infantry fighting of World War II. In Technicolor photography that lent itself to little intercutting of real combat footage, Director Lewis Milestone has staged his battle scenes with jarring realism and vigor. By borrowing the brilliant camera technique of his own 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front, he has filmed them with sweep, surprise and rhythm...
While some people loudly cried for wage & price controls, the Senate-House watchdog defense committee last week lent itself to an all-out attempt to sabotage credit controls, the only existing brake the U.S. has had against inflation...
...Home Owners' Loan Corp. (1933-48); of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. A onetime (1909-10) vice president of the Associated Press and editor (1903-10) of the Boston Traveler, New Hampshire-born John Fahey was a co-founder of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, between 1933 and 1936 lent $3,093,451,321 to 1,017,821 householders (one-fifth of the period's mortgage loans), ended HOLC up in the black...
...Secretaries of State." The President was apt to stick by him the more he was attacked. Acheson's peril, however, lay not so much with critics of his foreign policy, as with its friends, who feared that his unpopularity jeopardized the policy. It was their outspoken worrying that lent credence to reports that within a month or two Acheson would quit. Most scuttlebutt simply had him returning to private law practice, but elaborate guessing said that he might step up to the Supreme Court and be replaced by Chief Justice Fred Vinson...