Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Problems, not personalities, were on the reading public's mind. On most nonfiction best-seller lists were Sumner Welles's The Time for Decision, Charles & Mary Beard's A Basic History of the United States, Edgar Snow's People on Our Side, Walter Lippmann's...
There was clear evidence of deteriorating relations between the other American republics and the State Department. The firm hand and general know-how on Latin America seemed to have disappeared with the resignation of Diplomats Sumner Welles and Lawrence Duggan. Recently seven Latin American ambassadors met with Hull to discuss...
Call the Celebrities. Hollywood fought glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia...
Ageing Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, 75, climbed out of his safety cellar and into his kilts. The last of the royal Stuarts and pretenders to the English throne was a German subject who had remained behind when the Germans evacuated Florence. He was happy to find himself among the Allies...
Emil Ludwig, portly, popular German refugee biographer (Napoleon, Beethoven), scandalized a large Los Angeles convocation of musicians and intellectuals. Ludwig, invited to pinch-hit for Orson Welles at the meeting (sponsored jointly by U.C.L.A. and the ultra-liberal Musicians Congress), had not been asked for advance copies of his speech...