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...Charlie MacArthur's scuffed patent-leather prose. "The situation called for immediate action," he wrote. "We . . . sent for The Experts. [Then] we were wheeled into the operating room while The Experts did a complete plastic job . . . We feel as good as new. No squeak, no stoop, even no squawk . . . While we were under the anaesthetic, a soft rain of $1,000 bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brother Act | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard Corporation (the five-man board which appoints Harvard's presidents) paid no attention to Sargent's latest squawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Higher, the Worser | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...really enterprising man. He might have expected cheers for his latest ambitious project: to put a full-length Technicolor record of this summer's Olympic Games on the world's screens within a bare three weeks of the last event. Instead, the predominant noise was a squawk from other moviemakers, shut out of the Olympics when Rank paid ?25,000 for exclusive film (and television) rights. By last week, however, with Rank's announcement of final arrangements, everyone calmed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olympics--Ltd. | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...production line. His role will be worth watching in Election Year, 1948. The "independent" voters within trade unions and without, who were formerly solid behind the Roosevelt symbol, currently divide into two camps of confused citizens sharing only restlessness and concern. Some intend to back Wallace to register a squawk; others may dislike Truman policies but will support him or, in greater likelihood, work for a better Democratic nominee, in the belief that a protest vote assuring Republican success is too-great a luxury today. Heading up the latter are the major officers of U. S. labor in company with...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

...think this is everyone's business," Moravec declared last night. "We've got to convince Congress that the overwhelming majority of us in Cambridge know what is happening to the Marshall Plan and care about it enough to make a squawk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moravec to Head 'Save Marshall Plan' Project | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

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