Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still the focus for the Kremlin's drive was Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. While he awaited a final ruling on his life-term prison sentence, the Hungarian Communists roared against the "Western warmongers," whose "slander-and-lie campaign" was "attempting to capitalize on the Mindszenty trial." It was clear that the Reds were still trying to establish a working relationship with the Catholic Church-on their own terms. Last week Hungary's Bench of Bishops received a letter-supposedly written by Mindszenty and similar to the one read during the trial-urging an agreement. At week...
...torchbearers in the 1940 campaign to put U.S. aid squarely behind Britain and France. He and three lawyer colleagues had written and made public a lawyer's brief supporting Roosevelt's right to swap the 50 U.S. destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Cordell Hull, Roosevelt invited Acheson back into his family as Assistant Secretary of State. Acheson gave up his law practice to take the $9,000-a-year...
...White Cloud airport a C.N.A.C. pilot exclaimed: "My God, there are five new buildings here since my trip last week!" From banyan-shaded Shameen Island (site of the original foreign concessions) the boom fever spread to equally fashionable Tung Shan, where Premier Sun Fo and other officials maintain swank Western-style homes. New arrivals vied eagerly for the few remaining houses and apartments. Key money for a dingy, two-room flat ran as high as $4,000 U.S. On the outskirts of the city hundreds of coolies sweated daily as they hurriedly built shoddy houses...
Improve the Service. For Budd, such up & coming railroading was a matter of habit. An Iowa farm boy trained as a civil engineer, he began railroading at 20 on the Chicago Great Western. After a spell of work on the Panama Canal, he became an assistant to Empire Builder Jim Hill on the Great Northern. In 1919, a few years after Hill's death, Budd, at 40, stepped into Hill...
...company policeman in the days when roadbeds were rough and railroading rougher, Preston winds up on the villains' or losing side. There are some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail. Its only novelty: Actor Ladd, familiar as a sleekly tough urban type, carrying two guns and looking pretty uncomfortable as they flap around his chaps...