Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today we find war waged on a scale more vast than ever known in the world before. What has happened to the contemporary American play-wright in the midst of this confusion and perplexity? Only Eugene O'Neill remains apart from the turmoil, continuing work on a gigantic cycle of nine plays, to be called "A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed." He has the true artist's contempt for problems of the moment; his sole concern is with humanity in all time. To many critics this seems a selfish and unpatriotic occupation when our nation is fighting for its basic...
...things-labor peace. In a long, cooing letter to C.I.O. President Philip Murray and A.F. of L. President William Green, labor's black storm cloud proposed an end to the violent feud which has split labor for the last six years, kept labor's house in turmoil. Said Mr. Lewis...
Argentina's internal political turmoil was blanketed under a state of siege suddenly ordered by Acting President Ramon S. Castillo. "I wish that no one speak ill of anyone," he said...
...networks were in action-and in a turmoil. The news was beyond the grasp of some listeners. WOR, cutting into its football broadcast for a half minute, a minute at a time, got furious telephone calls from people too excited about the game to become excited about anything else. In Denver, when a religious hour was canceled, one man called station KFEL to ask if it considered the war news more important than the gospel. Nowhere did the straight radio reports of terrific bombing at Honolulu-of Jap pilots diving over the beautiful mountains to fire U.S. ships and kill...
Echoing the university's policy, the News commented editorially: "In the turmoil of the hour it should be remembered that if we are to create a better world out of this war we shall need trained leaders for the years to come. The student who remains conscientiously at his talks until the opportunity for even greater service is open to him in fighting this larger...