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Through the indignation that has arisen around the American refusal to support the Palestine partition that question persists. Why, after 30 years of investigations, which have all reported substantially the same thing, does the United States call for more investigations? Why, after she had been the prime mover in the request for partition, does the United States in a little more than five months completely reverse her position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palestine | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Claude Solana, prime mover of the B.U. campaign, declared last night that he and a group of friends would announce their specific plan, of action today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Anti-MacArthur Group In Chicago Enlists Hub Aid | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

Marie showed complete affability under the flashbulbs, draping herself modestly in a corner as shuttera clicked. Cheerfully removing her outer garments, she explained lightly, "It's all right. I got more on underneath." Careful investigation proved the truth of this statement, as the mover failing necklace and three bows were tracked down...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Stripteuse Displays Pet Bangles for Crime | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

While the Athens Congressman (Anthony Quinn) is acting the part of his namesake, he is also pulling for a United States of the World, an idea that appears to be the prime mover of the play, as well as the Greatest Idea Ever to Hit Congress. Potentially capable of turning the story into a provocative speculation on the shortcomings of UN, the idea falls prey to the same double-breasted double talk that plagues the Secretes business. Ideas give way to fists as the actors apparently fire of aiming empty words at empty seas and resort to more satisfying exertions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

Pravda had previously tried to play down the Little Comintern, brushing it off as a mere information bureau. Zhdanov, however, is one of the five top men of Russia and the prime mover in the Little Comintern reorganization, and should know more about it than Pravda. He said that the group was brought into being because the "open expansionist program of the U.S. is reminiscent of the extraordinary and infamous defeated program of Fascist aggressors." General Zhdanov clearly connected the Little Comintern with the main line of Soviet policy. The line itself he expressed with great clarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Three Quotes | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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