Word: poses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief service over. Vice President Henry Wallace gravely shook the President's hand. When the President returned to the executive offices, photographers were waiting. He grouped his faithful secretaries and military aide about his desk and posed for anniversary pictures. Then, putting his cigaret holder in his mouth at a rakish angle, jutting his chin forward, in the pose cartoonists use, he said: "Let's make one this way, boys." Franklin Roosevelt was putting on his "stern face." The result (see cut) showed what a remarkable resemblance the President, now 61, bears to his late mother...
...first annual Truman report, with its shocking evidence of all-around bungling (TIME, Jan. 26, 1942), had not spelled the end of bungling. This week the Committee worked on its second annual report, which would have to recite much the same story, chastise many of the same men, pose some of the same old problems. How big should the Army be? How could the manpower tangle be solved? Where would the nation get its food this year? What was wrong with...
...Inefficient transportation, idle factories, high taxes, famine. Material conditions and morale of the people went down each year. "The Government propaganda authorities had to withdraw the posters showing Franco in a heroic pose, with arms crossed over his chest. ... To stand with arms folded is the symbol of unemployment in Spain, and too many disillusioned Spaniards had scrawled over the poster...
...Charity. On the verge of strangulation by blockade (TIME, Feb. 8), denied effective military aid by circumstances and neglect, China was in effect notifying the U.S. and Great Britain that the last hour for action had come. And China was using the facts of her desperate plight to pose some grave questions to Washington and London: Will China have to orient her policy with Moscow's alone, rather than with a real United Nations? Must China, in self-preservation, seek some way to end her own war before she is thrown to Japanese conquerors and Chinese puppets...
Tableau. In Hillsdale, Ill., harried Farmer Arthur Ferkel stood with the muzzle of a gun under his neck, his toe on the trigger, threatened to press while a sheriff and his deputy tried to argue him out of it. He held the pose for seven hours before they won the argument...