Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torpedo shook C.M.U. from stem to stern, although C.M.U. was not yet sunk and Harry Bridges and comrades were not yet licked. Bridges was on his way to Honolulu to negotiate a longshoremen's contract. But in the Manhattan headquarters of N.M.U., Curran's Communist pals, now his bitter, open enemies, scurried around like enraged locusts, shrilling propaganda...
Temper the Wind (by Edward Mabley & Leonard Mins; produced by Barnard Straus & Roland Haas) takes a stern look at postwar Germany. It is frankly polemical-a stage editorial dramatizing the dangers to peace that lurk within a defeated Germany, and the responsibilities that are fumbled and even selfishly flouted by Americans...
...film, the camera moves between a clinical study of lovesick Niven's brain disorder and the imaginary heaven that wants to straighten out its ledgers by hauling him in. In the big, final scenes, he alternately lies on an operating table and stands before heaven's stern court of justice. Cast and audience are at last persuaded, of course, that Young Love must live, since it is the all-important thing on earth or in heaven...
...back-breaking job, but so far no one showed signs of cracking. Caterers brought meals in to the offices of both papers. At the Record, steaks, chops and plentiful desserts were served on linen-spread tables gleaming in candlelight. Each day masseurs came in to rub down Stern's high-priced, nonstop help. In Philadelphia the men managed to get home each night, but in Camden the Courier-Post crew slept in cots set up beside their desks, seldom saw their families. At week's end Saylor rasped: "There's nobody here getting tired...
...Guild strike against Hearst's Los Angeles evening Herald & Express for about the same terms demanded of J. David Stern ended after 83 days. The Guild had asked for a 40% pay boost, settled for 14%. Cried the Herald & Express in a front-page editorial: "It was a senseless strike . . . the workers lost money, the newspaper lost money . . . the public of Southern California was deprived of its greatest daily newspaper...