Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt made no bones about where he stood. The official White House statement detailing the President's movements quoted him as saying: "Questions of mutual interest and importance to France and the U.S. are pending. I wanted very much to see the General before leaving for home." This was a diplomatic way of shrugging shoulders and saying: it's your hard luck, Charlie, if you didn't come...
...pickle heiress realizes what a monument of selfishness the Duke is, and gets over her love for him. Richard wearies of making spaniel eyes at the termagant widow and rejects her quite brutally when she decides he'll do. And all four, neck-deep in subplot and mutual deception, spend a rambunctiously funny night dreaming about each other (the principals as living statues in slow, then fast motion...
Manhattan's WOR-Mutual purveys eleven different melodramatic thrillers, principally to juvenile listeners. Recently the station got a letter on the subject: "So very many scripts make facial or bodily disfigurement the synonym for wickedness and brutality. . . . The effect this may have on young America now, with so many of our servicemen returning disfigured, is certainly not the effect such a powerful influence as radio should have." Last week, by executive decree, "scarfaces" and "gimps" had been ruled out of Mutual's children chillers...
...Yalta, Big Three cooperation was expressed in willingness to make mutual concessions: Stalin's disavowal of his Free Germany Committee, Churchill's concessions on Poland, Roosevelt's implicit underwriting of Russian security. But most important was the fact that all agreed to the fundamental proposition that Germany must be permanently eliminated as a military power...
...right to intervene in the affairs of liberated countries (as Britain did in Greece) until the people of those countries can "create the democratic institutions of their own choice." The Big Three's words presumably applied to Russia's sphere (Bulgaria, Rumania, etc.): "They jointly declare their mutual agreement to concert, during the temporary period of instability in liberated Europe, the policies of their three Governments in assisting the peoples liberated from the domination of Nazi Germany, and the peoples of the former Axis satellite states of Europe, to solve by democratic means their pressing political and economic...