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After all the thunder & grumbles were on the record, the House passed the reapportionment bill, 318 to 6. Most Tories, Churchill included, abstained. From the practical Tory point of view, the bill was not all bad. In its major clauses the bill would redraw constituency boundaries in such a way as to ensure fewer seats for Laborites, more seats for Tories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Thunder & Grumbles | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Korea, Land of the Morning Calm, was on the verge of a new day. But dawn was coming up like thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Portent | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...spent $50 on his own shoes) could pause to comment on the fancy shoes being worn by the Marquess of Queensberry; for hero-worshipers he had the right tone of awe ("Now here comes J. Pierpont Morgan himself . . . [and] you see the lightning behind the brows, and sense the thunder in the voice"). To the honest, indignant poor, Runyon gave descriptions of Capone's ill-gotten silken underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Things to All Men | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...again been thrust into the locale of his former triumph, this time as a member of the Cortez expedition. But Tyrone has been shortchanged; Twentieth Century Fox, though providing violent color contrasts, strident blaring music, and earthy young Jean Peters, has neglected to furnish a blood and thunder plot. Of course, there is a photoplay, something about Cortez and the Inquisition and the trials of chivalry; but in the category that counts, the number of varlets pinioned per reel, it falls woofully short. Power himself suffers more than all his adversaries combined, culminating with a grievous wound in the left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain from Castile | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...price break the first distant thunder of that crash? The rumbling continued for four days, then some prices firmed up. Experts pondered the reasons for the break (see BUSINESS). They were not sure of what it might bring. They did not, however, believe that it was the beginning of disaster. "We haven't gone over the cliff," said a Washington economist. "We've just hit a bump in the road." Despite the fact they had taken huge paper losses in the last few days, farmers showed no sign of panic. They confidently expected prices to go up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Clink of Pennies | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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