Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dogged Line. The speeches written for him by smart, genial young Lew Frank Jr., a onetime New Republic staffer, cleaved more & more shamelessly to the Communist line. He delivered them doggedly, chin buried between his shoulders, his mouth turned down at the corners. He attacked the "oil trusts," the U.S. policy of "intimidation"; he charged: "We are guilty of almost every charge we level at the Russians." At Iowa City he demanded a meeting between the next President and Stalin, adding: "Roosevelt always said he could do business with Stalin. That's what he often told me personally...
...episodes often mediocre. The plot centers upon Peter (his surname never appears) and his two fellow-careerist apartment-mates n Manhattan. Ted lost his arm overseas; shorn of idealism and faith, overwhelmed with wealth that is the one ingredient he needs least for happiness, he ultimately ends his life. Lew Cole has changed his Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office trappings and scampering office boys. Through the lives of these three and the circle around them...
...plan worked so well that by 1946 he had become the biggest U.S. producer of whiteware. The town was more prosperous than ever before, thanks to the 825 jobs and to the fat bonuses passed out by Lew Reese; in 1946, he gave his workers $705,000 at year's end. But last Christmas, as he prepared to pass out another $423,000, trouble caught up with Lew Reese. His plant burned down, and he had bought no fire insurance...
Instead of getting the bonuses, the townspeople took up a collection of $1,000 to help Lew Reese. Then they went out and helped him clean up the blackened wreckage of the plant. Even Jay Spiker, the town banker, joined in. Said Reese hopefully: "We'll be turning out cups and saucers here in two months' time...
...last week the new plant, with a production capacity of 22,500 dozen pieces a day (11% greater than the old), was ready to open, 64 days from the time Lew Reese made his "two months" boast. One morning at 7 a.m., the opening whistle blew. The erstwhile construction hands went back to their pottery jiggers exactly 15 years from the day when Reese first reopened the abandoned plant...