Word: smith
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Most importantly, perhaps, the proclamation ended the President's power to seize private property under the Smith-Connally act. Termination of the act means that the Government can no longer take over a strike-bound plant as a means of settling a labor dispute. And six months hence, the Government must get out of any private industry it is now operating: e.g., the soft coal mines and the Great Lakes tugs...
Innocents & a Broad. Cartoonist Caniff's contribution to the industry was to throw in some curves and give it glamor. Long before he came along the "comics" had generally ceased to be funny. They had learned a thing or two about narrative from Sidney Smith's chinless Gumps and Frank King's morality play about the Wallets of Gasoline Alley. But mostly their idea of action was to have a character jump out of his shoes. Into Terry and the wartime Male Call (for the G.I. press) Caniff poured fast-breaking dialogue, credible adventure - and one touch...
...London park. Blunden only guesses at the circumstances of this painful episode. His book (published 14 months ago in England), was written before publication in the U.S. of The Shelley Legend, (TIME, Nov. 19, 1945), which does a lot to set the record straight. Author Robert Metcalfe Smith proves that Mary Shelley deliberately used forged letters to conceal Shelley's guilt in the suicide...
...shows once again an alarming tendency to put his entire faith in certain specialized types of men-men from Missouri whom he knows and trusts, and in high Army officers whom, he, as a one-time major in the artillery once knew and respected. With Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith now directing American affairs in our most crucial foreign post, Moscow, and General Groves still in possession of a potent voice in the control of atomic energy, the appointment of General Marshall to the second highest position in the Government is the piece of brass which breaks the camel...
...cannot bait the new student organization now, for it produced a leadership which represents a cross-section of American students in the strictest sense. Chairman-elect Jim Smith, student body president at the University of Texas, heads an executive Committee including 30 regional chairmen and three representatives of an organizational council embracing every shade of political opinion and religious guidance...