Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stab in the Back." The left-wing leaders did not need Wallace's praise; they had a tight grip on most of the 948 delegates (representing 600,000 members). But they used it to strengthen their attack on U.E.'s small group of right-wingers, led by James B. Carey, one of the U.E.'s founders and onetime president. Slim Jim Carey, now the C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer, knew that he had not the slimmest chance of unhorsing the top trio, but he carried his fight to the floor. Matles and Fitzgerald gave Carey the full...
...lieutenant: "When you will start fighting the Russians?" The lieutenant had heard the question many times before. Jokingly he pointed to a row of carbines: "When we have two more guns." To Lakhidnya it was a poor joke. But he smiled politely and said: "One pistol-that all you need. That-and one ammunition...
Well aware of France's and Europe's need, the U.S. Government rushed a program of emergency...
...university recognizes its limitations. Says popular Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand: "The big institution must be content to be a place of opportunity rather than a place of compulsion. It is no place for a student of unformed character and uncertain purpose. [But] the presence of the mob need not seriously interfere with the education of the gifted...
...Jolson is half as lively in front of a microphone as he is in conversation around his Hollywood swimming pool, Kraft need not worry. The agency is spending at least $20,000 a week on the show, in which Al is supported by acid-tongued Pianist Oscar Levant. Kraft offered Al a fat four-year contract, without options, 39 weeks a year, with two weeks off in every...