Word: starring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, deviations from the Lindsey and Crouse satire are fortunately few, and though the "State of the Union" doesn't always succeed, it never quite sceedes. Adolphe Menjou has apparently profited from his recent star-chamber experience for he is convincing as a machine politician. Whether machines are as harmless as Tracy suggests is still unclear. Yet though his head is in the clouds, his toes are down among the grass roots, and no self-respectin' man or woman can failed to be moved...
Captain Hans Estin was again the offensive star of the game. He scored four of the goals, and made one assist. Dick Bezanson, Austie Lyne, and Bob Lange made the other tallies. But the big surprise came when, for the second straight game, big Bob Forsythe came booming up from defense to register and assist...
...chest set up by a group of wealthy Minnesotans. Chief of the backers and money-raisers was Harry Bullis, wealthy board chairman of General Mills. Others: James Ford Bell, recently retired board chairman of General Mills; John Cowles, board chairman of Cowles Magazines (Look) and president of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; John S. Pillsbury, board chairman of Pillsbury Mills; and Jay Hormel, board chairman of George A. Hormel & Co. But in the last 18 months, over 13,000 people from all over the nation have contributed an average of $35 apiece-a total of about $450,000. The money...
Dapper, pudgy Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas was the Government's star witness. After he had given a dramatic reading of the transcript of Lawson's testimony before the committee, he was cross-examined. His aggressive, cocksure manner gone, he hedged and fidgeted as he was asked if he had been active as the committee's chairman. It took swarthy Defense Lawyer Ben Margolis five tries before he wrung from Thomas the reply: "Well, I don't want to be facetious or even egotistical, but I would say yes to that question...
...Four-star General Pai Chung-hsi, Minister of National Defense, reported rather perfunctorily on military affairs-somehow he skipped the war situation in North China and Manchuria. A Manchurian cried: "We are losing, nonetheless! Who are the criminals responsible?" The hall resounded with yells of "Find out! Shoot them! Shoot them...