Word: owen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest mule dealers cussed in concert as only men who have mingled with mules can cuss. They mentioned, in various uncomplimentary ways, the U.S. Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government. But they saved their real whizbangs for a fellow dealer, Kansas City's Ferd Owen. When they had worked off their wrath, they got Texas' Representative Wingate Lucas to draft an odd bill for Congress. It would prohibit export of mules except by Government permit...
...latest Gallup poll showed 74% of U.S. citizens in favor of enforced military training for U.S. youths. Bernard Baruch put U.M.T. high on his 16-point preparedness program. Last week, speaking as chairman of the newly formed, 120-member Citizens Emergency Committee for Universal Military Training,* Owen J. Roberts, former Supreme Court justice, added his voice. World affairs are approaching a crisis, he told the House Armed Services Committee. U.S. military weakness is accelerating its approach. Said Roberts: "Every month's delay is a terribly dangerous thing...
Next day the planemakers trooped to Washington to tell their story to Senator Owen Brewster's aviation subcommittee. Glenn Martin, short of cash, has been able to borrow only $3,000,000 from bankers. He has had to ask RFC for a $25,000,000 loan to keep operating. Martin emphasized that modern planes can't be built on a shoestring basis. Said he: "National defense needs have advanced to a supertechnical stage which makes it impractical and unrealistic, if not impossible, to carry out the Government's past policy of a skeleton peacetime military organization...
...Imperfect Lady (Paramount) is the spirited daughter (Teresa Wright) of a late-Victorian shopkeeper (Reginald Owen). Touring with a dancing troupe against papa's wishes, she meets and falls in love with Ray Milland, who tries to appeal to the audience going & coming: he is standing for Parliament as a Liberal, and he is the brother of a lord (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After the young people are married, it develops that Teresa has been mixed up with a hot-tempered Spanish concert pianist (Anthony Quinn) whom the police suspect of murder. If she furnishes his alibi...
...Perfect. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce elected a new President, Earl Owen Shreve, vice president in charge of General Electric's heavy-industry sales. Iowa-born President Shreve's favorite term of complete approval used to be "640% perfect." Recently he deflated this to "106%." But his first official speech (which did not agree with the views of his boss-see The Economy) warned against similar deflationary tactics in business. Concerted price-cutting, he told the Chamber might bring a new depression...