Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public Disgust. The steel strike, said Adlai Stevenson in a speech to the Institute of Life Insurance in Manhattan, marks "the end of an era. Everybody is agreed that this cannot happen again, that the public interest is the paramount interest, and that irresponsible private power is an intolerable danger to our beleaguered society." To keep it from happening again, Stevenson proposed that Congress arm the President with an arsenal of new antistrike weapons, ranging from boards empowered to make settlement recommendations (present law bars Taft-Hartley boards of inquiry from offering recommendations) to compulsory arbitration if the two sides...
...Abner (Paramount), the Hollywood version of the Broadway version of Al Capp's comic strip, is a great big overblown pink-walled synthetic two-time reCapp. Like all Capp, it is Rabelais for the retarded, but it will probably carry an impressive bundle to the bank...
That evening, 50 guests arrived for the traditional birthday cocktail party in the palace grounds, found no one to welcome them and nothing to drink. Inside the palace, the troubled King was listening to two paramount chiefs as well as the father of both his wife and of his sweetheart Sarah. They urged him to reconsider his hasty action against Queen Damali. Prince Juko, far from being cast into a cell for a crime in the shrubbery, was gaily taking part in all the birthday celebrations. The consensus in Buganda was that Queen Damali had been framed and that...
Nathan M. Pusey, President of Harvard University--"This relationship to God--the attitude of reverence--this is the paramount thing. All of us stand perpetually in need our lives of that basic affirmation which is the essence of faith...
Career (Hal Wallis; Paramount), the film version of James Lee's off-Broadway hit of 1957, tells the story of a stage-struck ex-soldier (Anthony Franciosa) from Lansing, Mich, who heads for Manhattan after World War II to become an actor. He imagines himself going from hit to hit, but unfortunately he staggers from cliche to cliche. For six months he lives in the inevitable cold-water flat with an orange crate for an icebox, and walks the streets from one tryout to another. Nothing doing. Then a talk-big, pay-small type Dean Martin) gives...