Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soft & Low. This unremitting little mountain warfare was disturbed last week by a new voice from White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. It was soft and low, but it was the voice of John L. Lewis. He had a message for "the able Mr. Green." Making no mention of his own many troubles (his 385,000 striking coal diggers are making little headway), John L. proposed that the A.F.L. join with him to help Phil Murray's C.I.O. fight against "the giant adversaries which would decimate one by one the major units of organized labor...
...gave a crusading fervor last week to the first Ed Wynn Show (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). With blood in his eye, veteran Comic Wynn was out to challenge the TV popularity of brash Milton Berle. Wynn's feelings for Berle, whom he can scarcely bring himself to mention by name, range from lofty superiority ("I've yet to see something original from that man") to pitying scorn ("He'll be the D.W. Griffith of TV-nobody will give him a job in a couple of years...
...inefficiency of the new system. "The traffic might have been a little more dangerous before, but it certainly moved faster," argued one. "Busses are forced to double-park, and between 5:30 and 6 p.m. cars are often tied up as far back as Chauncy Street. Not to mention the early morning...
...speech, Griswold briefly sketched the Law School's distinguished history and then went on to mention some of the present problems it faces. He claimed that its relatively large size gives it advantages in library, faculty, and cosmopolitan student body not to found in smaller institutions...
Health Minister Ancurin Bevan, leader of British labor's left wing, said yesterday a general election will be held "in a very short time on a date I don't propose to mention...