Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Special Assistant to the Attorney General Department of Justice Washington...
...skilled a congressional vote counter as Harry Truman knew that Olds had no chance. But since Olds had the undying opposition of the power lobby, the President was able to make a fine grandstand play against "the special interests." No one knew better than Harry Truman that an abrupt order to vote for Olds as a matter of party loyalty was no way to put Olds over. It only stimulated the opposition...
...Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, at Yalta, discussed Germany's future with their ally Stalin, Pieck was busy making speeches to German P.W.s in Russia, forming the nucleus of a future German Communist regime. When the Red Army moved into Berlin, Pieck was flown into the city by special Russian plane. He had work to do there...
From the government's point of view, there was a hitch. It was impossible without special parliamentary legislation, said the Ministry of Supply, to ban one kind of slot machine without banning them all. A machine built to sell candy bars could just as easily sell contraceptives provided they were wrapped in the same package. Besides, said the ministry, slot machines of all types were an important item in Britain's export program...
...resident company was the celebrated Viennese actress, Luise Rainer. Chekhov, Miss Rainer, and the Brattle players have never been seen to better advantage by this reviewer. The Brattle Hall group, which in the past few years has done so much to raise the level of drama locally, deserves most special praise for introducing and re-introducing both Chekhov and Miss Rainer to this generation of theatergoers...