Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avid TIME reader. But now that you have printed those "bloodsucking lies" about "our" governor, I'm afraid TIME will be outlawed in Louisiana...
Humphrey's way is to keep moving. Last week he added a big chunk of new territory to M. A. Hanna's hodgepodge empire. With three of his longtime ore customers (Inland Steel, Armco and Wheeling Steel), Humphrey put together a $15-million syndicate to buy control of Butler Brothers,* which owns five groups of ore mines and large reserves in Minnesota's Mesabi and Cuyuna ranges. Mesabi's high-grade ores are being rapidly depleted, and the deal gave Humphrey's syndicate a fat share of what's left. Butler Brothers annually ships...
...tribute, redolent of grease paint, to Sacha's famed actor father . Lucien. The son's brittle wit shows to best advantage when he is dishing out impudence, irony and disillusionment. This film suffers from an irony of its own: reverence and honest sentiment do not become M. Sacha Guitry...
...snatches and grabs, whimpers and bellows, cringes and brutalizes as his pleasures demand, without ever feeling the slightest genuine regard for anyone. He invites women to his room for "a little tea, a little chat," tells them that "a woman like you could keep a man. I'm looking for an oasis in my desert, a rose on a blasted heath," and then, his conquest made, he slips them money. Ever since early manhood he "had bought women; most had been bargains and most had made delivery at once. He never paid in advance: 'I got no time...
Black-Market Hero. During the war Grant rides high ("I'm too old to fight, all I can do is to make a profit"). He plunges into the black market and secret deals with the Axis, is snared by an avaricious blonde whose mind is as corrupt as his, and finds in the world's agony the perfect opportunity to snatch more pleasures. At war's end, Grant, aged and decayed, passes out with fright at the unexpected appearance of an old friend whom he had cheated years back. Grant's hallucinatory harangues, much like...