Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Conway has been nominated as the "Biggest Damn Fool of the Year" [TIME, April 22]. . . . The blame is not on Conway. He is but a tool, an agent of the New York Daily News and its readers. The News and its allied organs do not exist in a vacuum, printing blasts of prejudice from an editorial ivory tower contrary to the opinions of the rest of mankind. They exist because their millions of readers want to believe perversions of the truth...
Mexican Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano had been repeatedly termed a Soviet "tool." Communist-line Lombardo had paid little heed...
Wilhelm Furtwängler, unofficially banned last fall (as a "tool" of the Nazis) from resuming as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, was permanently banned by U.S. military government authorities. Brigadier General Robert A. McClure decided that the famed conductor's early anti-Naziism had weakened. As he had last December, Jewish Violinist Yehudi Menuhin bravely stuck his neck out for his fellow artist, cabled the General: "I beg to take violent issue. . . . The man was never a Party member ... I believe it is patently unjust...
...methods of realism are only a tool. In blending the horrible with the ludicrous, alcohol becomes the catalyst. Drink encourages characters endowed with normal human cowardice to plunge gaily into the ugliest and most dangerous situations and carry them off with unexpected turns of drunken ingenuity. The puzzle is no longer a chief attraction. The principal characters are all detectives and all Watsons...
Some 18 months ago, Hughes had hired Perelle away from his vice presidency at Consolidated Vultee, given him $75,000 a year to be vice president and general manager of the Hughes Tool Co., manager of the Hughes Aircraft Co., and a director of Transcontinental & Western Air. Those familiar with the eccentric ways of Planemaker Hughes wondered how long Perelle could take...