Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning to hear about Paul Douglas. Along with an unknown "caseless" Chicago lawyer named Harold Ickes, he launched the first protest campaign against the shabby stock manipulations of Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. Governor Franklin Roosevelt borrowed Douglas to work on New York State unemployment problems; so did Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot. Douglas drafted old-age pension and unemployment-insurance laws for Illinois, worked out the state utilities regulation act. He was a chairman of the board of arbiters for the newspaper industry, made such even-handed rulings that only two of his 40 decisions were ever challenged. He appeared...
...scroll, believed by biblical scholars to be the lost Book of Lamech, is one of four discovered in 1947 by a goatherd on the shores of the Dead Sea and brought to the United States by owner Samuel...
Officials of the museum accepted the scroll yesterday from its owner, Mar Athanasius Y. Samuel, Metropolitan of Jerusalem and Hashemite Jordan. The conservation department will now spend several days making a preliminary examination...
Robert Fontaine's book, "The Happy Time," from which Samuel Taylor has constructed the present version for producers Richard Redgers and Oscar Hammerstein, was probably as episodic as are most such books of family reminiscences. Mr. Taylor has chosen the best of these episodes and welded them together in the play--but not without the joints showing. Consequently, there is really no plot in the usual sense, but rather a series of amusing incidences which happen to occur in the same room and to the same people...
Unfortunately, the actors keep getting into the foreground, brandishing passports from Hollywood and posturing through a sprawling script based on the bestselling drugstore novel of Borgia intrigue by Samuel (Captain from Castile) Shella-barger (see BOOKS). The very authenticity of the surroundings helps to betray the story and characters as strictly from Graustark. And even Graustark is betrayed: moviegoers willing to take swashbuckling romance on its own easygoing terms are likely to chafe at the film's portentous pace and the political airs it puts...