Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milwaukee's employment agency is a dark draftsman named Eugene J. Buerk. Nazi Buerk's wife is sick at home, so he interviews applicants at the Highland Cafe (see cut, p. 15). He talks to as many as 100 per day, prefers skilled mechanics and machinists, particularly in the automotive trades. Those who accept his proposition must pay their own way to Manhattan, plus $35 toward third-class fare on a German-American liner. Remainder of the fare (about $110) reportedly is paid by a German industrial cartel (Siemens & Halske; Volkswagen; Augsburg Machine Co.; Bosch; Daimler; Opel&Wanderwerke...
...Marvin Mclntyre at a hotel room party given by the lobbyist for Utilitarian Howard Colwell Hopson, the roly-poly New Deal hobgoblin, Chip resigned. Presently, through Jim Farley's good offices, Chip bobbed up again as secretary of the Democratic National Committee. Today he and his beauteous second wife, "Evie" Walker, who has become a Washington chitchat writer (and last month, a mother), are the New Deal's sportiest couple...
Camp No. 2 and, although he protests that he stands with George Washington against foreign entanglements, is doing all he can to arm the European democracies as well as the U. S.* The scrappiest member of this camp is not the President, however, but the President's wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, who declared three weeks ago: "I am not sure that it is always right to be safe...
...camera cuts to a page of the Manhattan Telephone Directory and telescopes down on the name of "John Mason, lawyer." The opening action shot then shows Mason (James Stewart) pausing on his way to work to examine something he is carrying-a cabinet-size photograph of his wife (Carole Lombard...
...Copley, Macbeth was roaring his last speech to Macduff. His bosom heaved, and his voice thundered out over the audience, rolling majestically up even to the furthermost balcony. His bushy red eyebrows beetled noticeably. Everything had gone against him. His wife had died pitiably. Ten thousand English soldiers had brought Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane. And he was fighting a man not born of a woman. But, despite the witches' warning which must have been ringing in his ears, Macbeth bellowed his own obituary: "Lay on, Macduff; and damn'd be him that first cries Hold, enough...