Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dulles has devoted most of his life to international problems. For four years he has chairmanned the Federal Council's Commission on a Just and Durable Peace. His and the Council's great objective was largely achieved last week -to give to Protestants a vigorous point of view on international affairs which would be compatible both with the highest Christian ethics and with the ugly facts of human life in a sinful world...
...members of the U.S. War Manpower Commission. Washington was getting ready to adopt a work-or-fight law (see U.S. at War); Canada had had one since 1942. The commissioners wanted to see for themselves how Canada's system works. At Ottawa they were to get an overall view. Then they could visit Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal to see how the system works in the field...
Said the Daily Express' famed Beachcomber: "The Allies were not surprised, because they knew the possibility of a surprise attack. What surprised them was that the Germans thought it worth while to make a surprise attack ... in view of the fact that we knew that they would try to surprise...
Died. Major Arthur Corbett-Smith, 65, author and publicist; by his own hand (gun shot); in Margate, England. In a note to the police he explained: "I've had a very wonderful life, but I'm too old now. . . . I view with loathing the incidence and stigmata of old age. Age, with rare exceptions, is repulsive to look upon, and its so-called wisdoms are very problematical. Every man and woman at the age of 60 should show cause why he or she should continue to exist...
...Mexican artist who died 33 years ago is now being referred to by critics as "one of the great landscape painters of modern times." The evidence for this judgment was on view last week at the Brooklyn Museum, which was showing no paintings and drawings by José María Velasco...