Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ripe Apple. Through the State Department record marched an imposing parade of U.S. ambassadors and special presidential envoys. All of them, whatever their politics, had worked tirelessly for years to induce Chiang to clean his dirty, disordered house which had scarcely known a day without war-against the Communists, the Japanese (for eight years) and again the Communists. Every one of the U.S. envoys wanted to soften Kuomintang one-party rule, guarantee civil liberties, suppress graft, reform landholding, balance budgets...
Meanwhile, though he continued to live like a little shot in a lower-middle-brow home in McLean, Va., he began to act more & more like a big operator and a man who knows the right people. As a result, the Senate's special investigations subcommittee called him in to ask him if he was causing the republic any harm...
...them, they dragged nail kegs to the spot where the bench had originally reposed, and perched on them like defiant octopuses clinging to piling. The chief of police threatened to confiscate the nail kegs. That was more than the old men could take. They demanded, and finally got, a special municipal election to decide whether the bench should be restored...
From Washington last week some 800 special recordings were hustled by air to radio stations throughout the nation. They bore messages from more than half the members of Congress to their constituents; some were five-minute talks, others were 15-minute question & answer platters. Most were concerned with the congressional news of the week. Local stations broadcast the discs as "a public service ... in the hope that listeners will gain a better understanding of the serious problems confronting our legislators...
...Wanted (Emerald; Film Classics), as its strident advertisements declaim, is the story of an unwed mother. Ordinarily, when a movie tackles such a delicate subject, it strangles on sobs and special pleading or is scissored to death by censorship. As produced by a new independent unit, organized by Cinemactress Ida Lupino and husband Collier Young, it emerges as an earnest and unadorned account of a tragic problem...