Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most startled author of the week was brooding Eugene O'Neill. He has "Seraphic Sex Appeal," an artists' agent named Leora Thompson told the press. She put him in a special beauty class with Symphony Maestro Dimitri Mitropoulos, Tyrone Power, General Omar Bradley, and Irving Berlin. "It seems like a light from the cosmos shines in their eyes," said she. "Sanctified sex is what it really...
General Ike Eisenhower confirmed last week what most of Washington already knew: that he would step out-probably within a year-as Chief of Staff and be succeeded by gentle, earnest General Omar Bradley, head of the Veterans Administration. That sounded O.K. to almost everybody: Ike would be free to go into business (or, perhaps, politics) and General Bradley, after getting VA on the right track, would have greater scope for his great talents. What was even better news was the flat statement of a presidential confidant that General Bradley's successor would not be-as the rumormongers...
...some respects the Legionnaires ran true to form. They listened in silence as able General Omar Bradley, Veterans Administrator, defended himself from the assaults made on him by their outgoing national commander, bellowing John Stelle. The most recent focus of Stelle's attacks: Bradley's approval of a $200-a-month ceiling and a two-year limitation to "on-the-job" training for veterans, already costing the Government some $36 million a month...
Best known in the U.S. for his lavishly detailed anti-Nazi cartoons, which for a time were frequent Collier's cover subjects, and for his 1940 illustrations of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Szyk is now laboring lovingly over illustrations for the Book of Ruth and the Arabian Nights...
...more than two months' benefits, said Bradley. Today, about 1,700,000 are drawing down $135 million a month. The number on the rolls is growing and so is the length of time they stay on the rolls. Those among them who are not really seeking work, declared Omar Bradley, are jeopardizing the whole program: if this does not stop, he thought the public would force action to correct...