Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Provisions banning political activity by unions and corporations: "a dangerous intrusion on free speech." Requirement that all union officers sign an affidavit that they were not Communists: "disruptive." In short, there was not a single thing about it that Harry Truman would admit that he liked...
...reach the point: ''The Communist would go around talking to everybody, saying that he was for Bricker for President. He said to me, 'Do you know why I have been arguing for Bricker? Because if we can elect Bricker we will have a revolution in short order.' " Ohio's solemn Senator Bricker joined in the laugh...
...Harvard Square opera house has to offer the kiddies. There's one more sweet, this time wrapped in technicolor celluloid. It involves a music box, a lot of people dancing in masquerade, and a freckled little girl in pigtails and pajamas, among other inedible. But it's only a short--just enough time for a cigaret in the large, well-lighted lobby...
...sale of 500 million pounds of wool accumulated by the government at war-profits prices. Dissatisfied with these provisions the House has written in an amendment raising import fees (and therefore prices), and calling for restrictions of wool imports. Thus is spelled out in sober measures what is, in short, an excellent deal for the American wool growers. The value of the amendment to the American consumer, and to the maintenance of world economy, is more difficult to discern...
...grade personal secretary whq works a 168-hour week. Edmond O'Brien shows enough honest heelishness, and little enough hard-boiled mawkishness, to be one of the most likable of the tough young thriller heroes who move into Evil's den and drag it out by the short hair...