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...their preholiday scramble to dispose of weightier matters, Congressmen did not forget the old custom of giving a year's salary to the heirs of a deceased member -even though this time he was Mississippi's ill-famed Senator Theodore G. Bilbo. In the bill providing $540 million for interim aid to Europe and China, they appropriated $12,500 to be divided equally between Bilbo's son, Lieut. Colonel Theodore G. Bilbo, A.U.S., and his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Forrest Bilbo Smith, of Poplarville, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Paid in Full | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...rather than molders of men and nations, interesting as they are accepted or not accepted as realities or aspirations? Although some of these points, and many more, are touched on by Mr. Schlesinger's introduction and summary, they are undeveloped by the text. Perhaps they call for another, longer, weightier book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria this week, the world was uncomfortably conscious that the advent of peace was still, 18 months after V-E day, 15 months after V-J day, not imminent. Could analogy support the hope that this peace was long-deferred because its issues were weightier and, therefore, less likely to be tossed aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Four in a Tower | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...possibilities of a simple plot with one lecher, two merry wives, and one jealous husband would not strain the imagination of even the Old Howard's scrip writer. What Shakespeare does with it is refreshing diversion from his weightier masterpieces which stimone's brain and prod one's soul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

...first producing enterprise of the great music-&-words team of Oklahoma!, the second smash hit within a year for the author of The Voice of the Turtle, and Broadway's pleasantest family album since Life with Father. Not really a play-it has no plot, no structure, no weightier crisis than an operation on a child or the chloroforming of a cat-Mama gets across as theater partly because it never struggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 30, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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