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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bustin' out all over with operetta romances and sub-romances, misunderstandings, impersonations and sundry other Dutch-village doings, The Red Mill utterly eludes summarizing. Dorothy Stone is still light on her feet. In the main comedy roles, Michael O'Shea and Eddie Foy Jr. save some of the long, dusty stretches between songs. The songs themselves-Whistle It, In Old New York, Because You're You, Isle of Our Dreams, Every Day Is Ladies' Day With Me-are pleasant both as melodies and memories. The Red Mill is far from a full evening's entertainment...
...modest law practice, earning about $35 a month. Soon (1921) he found himself in the limelight of Seattle's famous Mahoney trunk murder. His client. James A. Mahoney, was convicted and hanged, but every crime-reading family in the Northwest knew of Lew Schwellenbach's fight to save...
...heads of state at Potsdam. The foreign ministers had no right to alter the Potsdam decision-that only the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Britain, which had signed the Balkan armistice terms, should draft the Balkan treaties. An agreement was an agreement, said aggrieved Mr. Molotov, and to save the conference he had been willing to do anything except break the agreement...
...with the new Arab League's Secretary-General Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey. Afterward, both breathed fire. Said Zaslani: in the event of bloodshed, "the Jews in Palestine will regard it as their fight." Said Azzam Bey: "The time has come when we must fight if necessary to save ourselves from the Jews...
...clergymen (including John Haynes Holmes and A. J. Muste) who sent a protest and appeal to President Truman, while vigorously condemning the way in which the bomb was used, seemed to imply that its use might have been excusable to "save ourselves in an extremity of desperation." They were "grateful for the scientific achievement" behind the bomb and wanted to see its power reserved "for constructive civilian uses...