Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour bargaining session was characterized by Heaman as "very friendly." He added that, "so far there has been no official mention in our discussions of a possible strike...
...minor performers--and all the technical aspects of the production--are on the whole excellent. Paul Mann, in the comic part of a social worker, deserves special mention for his performance of a role which is somewhat too long. And the director, John Stin, earns much credit for his intelligent use of George Jenkin's complex sets, even if he, together with the playwright, is responsible for the shapeless aspects of the early parts of the play...
...them up with some pleasant, sugary music. The Vagabond King ran for 511 performances on Broadway, and had every high-school tenor in the country gargling such sentimental favorites as Only a Rose, Someday and The Vagabond Song. Hollywood made a movie of the musical in 1930-not to mention two film versions of the McCarthy play in 1920 and 1938-and now the poor poet's corpse has been dug up once again...
...Soviet Union,presumably on personal order of Joseph Stalin, was restored to the index of approved reading. Reed's enthusiastic eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution (on his death in Moscow in 1920 the Bolsheviks gave him a hero's burial in the Kremlin wall) omits all mention of the role played by the then obscure Stalin...
...issue: the Democrats advocate outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and a return to something more like the Wagner Act; the Republicans suggest modification and improvement of Taft-Hartley. The Democrats also propose an increase in the national minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour; the Republicans mention no increase, but want to extend the minimum-wage-law protection to more workers...