Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty years after her first marriage, 15 months after her second divorce (from Sinclair Lewis), vigorous Columnist Dorothy Thompson said her next would be Maxim Kopf, refugee Czech painter...
...Manhattan last week 2,500 trade unionists jammed into Mecca Temple to protest the execution by the Soviet Government of Henryk Ehrlich and Victor Alter, Polish labor leaders. This was the first U.S. gathering on the cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...
While in the U.S. Anthony Eden will have the run of the White House, will confer with Wendell Willkie, Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong. He may make one formal speech, perhaps in Maryland (over which his great-great-grandfather, Sir Robert Eden, once ruled as colonial Governor), plans also to visit U.S. war plants, military and naval establishments...
...safer than margin buying by unsophisticated bargain hunters-though smart-money margin buyers often tend to stabilize the market. But traditionally the cash buyer is the same little fellow who would rather have 100 bad shares at 2 than four good ones at 50. And brokers have an old maxim: the time to sell is when the elevator man starts...
Lost Cause. In a heavy-handed manner which did U.S.-Russian understanding no good, Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff announced the deaths in a letter to A.F. of L. President William Green. Litvinoff said the two men fled to Moscow in 1939. They were sentenced to death in August 1941 for subversive activities, but were released at the Polish Government's request...