Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rambunctious Rebellion. The Assembly last week showed that it had determination. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak had relinquished public office at home just in time to be elected first president of the Assembly. His first act was to call for a short, practicable agenda. The Assembly rambunctiously rebelled against the Committee of Ministers, which has power to tell the Assembly what it can and cannot talk about. Cried Winston Churchill: "Why all this interference with the freedom of discussion...
...uneasy Taft-Stassen alliance of the Philadelphia days had settled well in advance on New Jersey's Guy George Gabrielson as its candidate for national chairman. He was an Iowa boy who made good in the big city as a Wall Street lawyer and industrialist. "Even Paul Robeson couldn't find fault with Gabrielson," said a Negro committeeman from Mississippi. Trilled the committeewoman from Iowa: "I'm in love, I'm in love with a wonderful...
Dissolved by this Communist ukase were about 15 Catholic charitable organizations, among them the internationally known nursing sisters of St. Vincent de Paul. The 1,400 nuns and 100 monks affected were given 15 days to make up their minds whether to 1) retire to one of three cloisters and two monasteries set aside by the government for the purpose; 2) enter homes for the aged; 3) quit clerical life altogether and register for jobs at state employment bureaus...
...critic for the News Chronicle raised a lone voice of dissent: '"Forgive me dear. I can't cry,' said the Salesman's wife over his grave . . . Forgive me, Paul Mum, but I can't cry either." The driest eyes of all, however, were those of the box-office clerks, busily selling tickets for ten weeks ahead...
Rope of Sand (Paramount) is Hollywood's flowery way of describing the prohibited desert area surrounding a fabulous South African diamond mining concession. Mounting guard on the diamonds are a shrewd, sadistic police chief (Paul Henreid), and his boss (Claude Rains), an elegant, cynical fellow who plays with human lives like a petulant puppet master. With the help of a luscious French trollop (Corinne Calvet), the two men are bent on frustrating the aims of a hulking American hunting guide (Burt Lancaster) who feels that he has earned the right to walk off with some of their precious pebbles...