Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bell?" they say). They talk thus even when they are planning murder, fraud and forgery, or saying aloud the thoughts that living people are most careful not to say. They do their grim talking in dining rooms and nurseries which the author hardly ever describes, but which Critic Edward Sack-ville-West has neatly termed "embowered, rook-enchanted concentration camps." The persevering reader will find that the sum total of all this artifice, melodrama and incredible behavior is a warm, witty, profoundly tragic portrait of married and family life...
...Denver. He got to thinking it was foolish to send his cattle to Chicago to be butchered, established Denver's first packing plant (the Western Packing Co.). He got to looking at the vast, empty Colorado prairies. After a visit to Germany, he came back with a sack of beet-sugar seed. The beets flourished on the prairies, and he founded the Great Western Sugar Co. He started building beet-processing plants, got to wondering about the German-made cement. He found that Colorado had the right clays, started the Colorado Portland Cement Co. (now the Ideal Cement...
...Chatty Chancellor, as such, We were really bound to sack, But as he still talks far too much, We have to take him back...
...Wallace activity at the University of Georgia, the University of Miami, and Evansville (Ind.) College. Most clear-cut case: the dismissal of young (29) George Parker, an assistant professor of religion and philosophy at Evansville and also county chairman of Citizens for Wallace. Just before he got the sack, Parker had presided at a meeting addressed by Henry Wallace. Explained Evansville's President Lincoln B. Hale: "Owing to Mr. Parker's political activities, both on and off the campus, his usefulness [is] at an end . . . The college fully subscribes to the principle of academic freedom...
...Temple in Susanna of the Mounties, and "didn't know what I was supposed to do"; and 2) an unsuccessful marriage to a London broker, which, however, produced a daughter called "Toots." At seven, Toots has already appeared in two of her mother's films, gets a sack or two of Maggie's weekly silo of fan mail...