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Word: lewises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked about some of the people in the news you would like to meet, you put Secretary Marshall and Joseph Stalin at the head of the list, say you would rather meet Douglas MacArthur than John L. Lewis, Bob Hope than Walter Winchell, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek than either Eleanor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

He sees no essential inconsistency in his position. He does not see any incongruity in the grandson of Uncle Henry reading with an air of furious sincerity a speech ghostwritten for him by Lewis Frank Jr., the debonair son of a Detroit Christmas tinsel manufacturer. The Frank speeches, so different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Iowa Hybrid | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

"Fancy 'avin' John L. Lewis." The opposition demanded a debate on Cripps's action before the House adjourned for its summer recess the next day. Eden suavely offered to give it the Conservative allotment of time that same evening. But by now the governess in Cripps was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hot Wind | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

"Sales and earnings for the second quarter," crowed Johns-Manville Corp.'s Board Chairman Lewis H. Brown, "were the largest for any quarter in the company's history." He did not crow alone. In the spate of second-quarter reports that came out last week, many another businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Happy Chorus | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Ghosts of the '20s. Huston and Co-Writer Richard Brooks have updated (and all but completely rewritten) Maxwell Anderson's nine-year-old play about a disillusioned veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and how he recovered his courage. McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of World War II...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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