Word: wave
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Assistant Secretary of State William Benton, who is fighting hard to get Congress' approval of a $31 million appropriation for his Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs, had some news to report last week. A short-wave transmitter in Munich, which relays OIC broadcasts from the U.S. to Russia, had been sabotaged, causing the broadcasts to go to South America instead...
...Common Sense. Some of the best sections of The Wallaces describe the feverish operations of the first wave of Brain Trusters. (Author Lord was one of them for a year, ghosted many of Wallace's reports, speeches and articles then & later.) Some measures of the quality of F.D.R.'s earliest advisers is suggested when Roosevelt tagged Wallace "Old Man Common Sense." But to Milo Reno, a farm-audience spellbinder of the early '30s, "Wallace would make a second-rate County Agent if he knew a little more." And blunt AAAdministrator George Peek (whom Lord respects), wrote: "[Wallace...
Eddie Heywood was on the crest of a wave when the records in this album were cut. A strangely haunting, morbidly phrased rendition of "Begin the Beguine" issued the year before, had established his reputation, and set the pattern for his style. He had somehow managed to combine complicated technique and warm melodic feeling effectively. Although now, after three years, the style seems to have overwhelmed the man and betrayed all artistic effect by its over-dominance, at the time Heywood was a balanced artist with something to say that hadn't been said before...
...Congressional formula for forestalling the impending strike-wave and creating industrial peace appears to be to take over the NAM program, reword it, and attempt to foist as much of it on the unions as is compatible with the Republican ambitions for 1948. One of the major impediments to Congressional action is the dispute between Speaker Martin and Senator Taft as to whether the foisting should be done piecemeal or it toto...
Bread & Wine. Most of the strike wave was in support of C.G.T.'s drive for a minimum wage of 7,000 francs ($59) a month. Many of the 1,300,000 Government employees (before the war there were 700,000) make less, and the raise would cost the French taxpayer 874 millions a year...