Word: lester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With equal firmness but less heat, External Affairs Secretary Lester Pearson pointed out that Britain had failed to advise Canada of its Middle East plans. Lacking prior consultation, Canada went to the U.N. and voted independently. "If a resolution is right, we vote for it," Pearson said. "It is bad to be a chore boy for the United States. It is equally bad to be a colonial chore boy, running around shouting 'Ready, aye, ready...
...stock, 300,000 out of 2,644,486 outstanding. Wall Street speculated that he may be trying to get control of the company since his investment is now bigger than the holdings of the next biggest stockholders, former Fox Production Head Darryl Zanuck (about 130,000 shares), Textileman Lester Martin (about 70,000), Fox President Spyros P. Skouras (about...
...friends and allies did their best to save Britain this final pommeling. Canada's Lester Pearson, who sponsored the resolution setting up UNEF, assured the Assembly that the Menon resolution was "unnecessary." The U.S. delegation, torn between its desire not to damage the Atlantic alliance further and its anxiety to retain new-found U.S. prestige in Asia and Africa, wavered. Finally, in the third U.S. change of heart in two days, Cabot Lodge lukewarmly but conclusively lined the U.S. up behind Menon...
...Victorian dandy, to exude high humor in the finale which he plays behind a stunning make-up job. Others in the cast include Catherine Huntington, Gail Kepner, Robert Leibacher, and John Coe. The last act set, the California patio scene, is designed with a real satirical flavor by Lester Gediman...
...great 1940 classic is with us once more--this time without its inevitable companion feature, Grapes of Wrath. For those who have missed the film the first twenty-three times around, Tobacco Road, based on a novel by Erskine Caldwell, concerns a poor-white Georgia dirt farmer named Jeeter Lester who tries to dig up $100 so he can keep his depression-haunted homestead out of the clutches of the bank. Not a man of boundless energy, Jeeter's attempts to secure the money, which include the theft of his son's car, turn out to be more or less...