Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense officials stuck to their original line: this isn't anything we haven't anticipated. Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray took his vacation as scheduled; other top defense officials went off for the usual routine dinners and speeches across the country...
...main, official Washington went on at its pre-bomb, pre-strike pace. So did most of the plain people of the U.S. Though men were clubbed and shot at, though thousands were already out of work, the nation's industrial troubles hadn't yet really begun to hurt and the issues were hard to understand (see below). Besides, most people were confident that somehow or other everything would be peacefully settled...
Last week, MoPac officials went all out: they proposed that the dispute be submitted to a panel of referees. MoPac would abide by the decisions of the panel, but the rail unions would not have to. There was only one condition to the offer: call off the strike at once...
...Pipe Dream." When the President rose to make his off-the-cuff speech he had a crowd which could hardly wait to cheer. He stoutly defended the 81st Congress and the Fair Deal. "My political philosophy," he said, "is based on the Sermon on the Mount." He went on to lay down a proposition that would be heard again & again in the off-year election campaign; he hoped, he said, that the U.S. could eventually raise its income from $200 billion to $300 billion a year-enough to bring the national average to $4,000 a family. "That...
With all this, the acting was very good. Helen Drohocka, as the phlegmatic women doctor, and Wanda Bertowna, as the pretty interpreter, led the east. But the picture was a group effort, as far as the acting went, and no single performance dwarfed any of the others. Certainly from the ranks of the Polish actors in this film will come some of the top artists in the foreign film business during the next few years...