Word: lewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan for industrial peace. He proposed that top spokesmen for labor, management and Government get around a conference table, face their problems in the manner of the United Nations. Asked Vandenberg: "Is it impossible to apply this formula at home in respect to vital industrial relationships?" Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach promptly agreed it was a good idea...
...control through subsidy, even though the writers admitted that the arrangement had never been "effective." But they were convinced that the U.S. somehow should maintain a strong position in the shipping world. They would dispose of some war-built U.S. merchant ships, but not with the sweeping gesture of Lew Douglas, who wants to go back virtually to a prewar status...
Following careful hearings, Selective Service has assigned many thousands of C.O.s (including Cinemactor Lew Ayres) to noncombatant service in the Army (Class 1-A-O), 8,426 to Civilian Public Service camps and special service projects (to do "work of national importance under civilian direction"[Class 4-E]), and some 5,000 to prison (including penicillin-research chemist Donald Charles DeVault, who refused to do the work assigned to him in a C.O. camp...
...Perino's, the Association of Motion Picture Producers sent in the first team-M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer, Goldwyn's Sam Goldwyn, Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, RKO's Charles Koerner, Universal's Nate Blumberg, Columbia's Irving Briskin, Fox's Lew Schrieber and Joe Schenck, everybody's Will Hays. Rank talked easily, but not about his plans. He liked the fried chicken...
...sold more than 8,000,000 copies. Close behind, in this order, are Scrapbookster Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia (4,000,000), Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (3,625,000), Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People (2,751,000), Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (2,500,000), and Marion Hargrove's See Here, Private Hargrove (2,500,000). Farther down the list are Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Bob Hope's / Never Left Home, with around a million and a half sales each. Anthony Adverse...