Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party had ganged up on the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for May, Mark Aldanov's novel The Fifth Seal (Scribner's; $3). The Daily Worker opened the attack with a letter demanding that the club withdraw the novel as "subtly and viciously anti-Soviet." Then the machinery started turning whereby the Party gets a wide assortment of innocent bystanders and fellow travelers to forward the assassination. Labor unions, civic groups and authors received unsigned memorandums, urging protests; many obliged. Protests were made by Sculptor Jo Davidson, Artist Rockwell Kent, Poet Alfred Kreymborg, Poetess Genevieve...
...Catherine Adams Morgan; $50,000 apiece to his secretary, John Axten, and Director Belle da Costa Greene of the Pierpont Morgan Library in Manhattan; $25,000 to butler Henry Physick; $20,000 apiece to valet Bernard Stewart, chauffeur Charles Robertson; his father's watch-chain charm (a seal), to grandson John Pierpont Morgan...
...Security prevents surmise, but I think I could seal a letter now naming the time and place...
...Your Pleasure (produced by George M. Gatts). A vaudeville restricted to dancing, singing and music, For Your Pleasure makes skill the handmaiden of monotony. By midevening the audience yearns frantically for a trained seal; by evening's end it would trade all the guitar players on earth for a gag-even a thoroughly bad and bewhiskered...
...Lord Privy Seal in Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet, Sir John expertly worked out plans for the evacuation of 3,000,000 Londoners, then became Secretary for Home Affairs and Home Security before the invasion scare of 1940. It was in this post that he fathered the famed Emergency Powers Act which, among other things, provided for the arrest of persons accused of "spreading alarm and despondency...