Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Logically, there is nothing to be said against the Count's idea. But does Britain want it, does Stalin want it, and, finally, do the Europeans themselves want it? The Norwegians have already indicated their desire to link their postwar destinies with those of Britain. The Dutch presumably hope to regain their empire. France is an African power as well as a European power. In general, the saltwater peoples have divisive ideas about "Mother Europe." Nor do the landlocked countries of eastern Europe dare come out for the idea of federation. The Czecho-Slovak Government in Exile has already...
...exquisitely sympathetic labor relations. He operates one of the biggest and last great open shops in the U.S. Union leaders make no secret of their alarm. Douglas' attitude is direct, as usual. On his desk sits a small pottery model of a skunk, which many visitors instantly link mentally with the colloquial axiom: "Never get in a squirting match with a skunk." It is said that when visitors mention labor problems to him, he merely points at the skunk...
...Reason for Sleep. A century ago Czech Frantisek Palacky observed: If the Austrian Empire did not exist, it would have to be invented. Advocates of federation hold that the Danube Valley is a unit, self-sufficient if properly organized, a link between Europe and the Balkans if properly conceived, a bulwark against German expansion if properly designed...
...Link is made to feel almost like one of the family. Pop (Victor Moore), an after-the-whistle Edison, gums up their first handshake with some ersatz rubber. A young brother, ghoulishly interested in medicine, counts Link's metatarsals and pleads for a dram of blood. A budding sister hopes Link will marry her ("Plenty of girls marry before they...
Meanwhile, Link jots it all down as research, while Teammate Fletcher Marvin (Franchot Tone) wraps it up for the air, and the U.S. is swept by the greatest family-program in history. Bonnie is swept too: one way by Marvin, a chronic wolf-another by Link, who is much too worried about what will happen when the family hears the program to notice Bonnie's new dress. In the long run come discovery, anger and pain, a slash of real pathos from Pop Moore, mollification through the drunken delights of notoriety, and an ultimate regaining of everybody...