Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During the rare moments when wit is forgotten and Barry's heady continuity fumbles, Miss Shepard comes to the rescue with extremely competent timing and humor sense for a performer of her years. Once or twice in the opening act her precocity becomes a little too precocious, but John Wilson's able directing never lets more than such very minor matters get out of hand...
What to Do? While waiting for the trial to begin (in Newark, N.J.'s Federal Court), there was not much G.E. could do but issue a counterstatement over the signature of G.E. President Charles E. Wilson, just returned from his government job as Vice Chairman of WPB. Its gist...
...charge: that G.E. and its subsidiary, International General Electric Co., Inc., have conspired for many years to restrain trade through cartel agreements with six foreign firms. Allegedly violated were the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Wilson Tariff Act, which applies many Sherman Act provisions to foreign trade...
General Electric planned and carried out its foreign agreements under the guidance of eminent legal counsel. .. . Among them: the late, great Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War in the Wilson Cabinet, and one of the great exponents of classical liberalism. Newton Baker had made a study of G.E.'s foreign contracts in 1922 (when, Francis Biddle now charges, it was violating the law). Baker's conclusion: without the contracts or some other arrangement, U.S. electrical knowledge would be denied necessary access to the advanced and valuable developments abroad...
Hopkins can more nearly, and possibly more fairly, be compared to Woodrow Wilson's Colonel House. Like House, Hopkins has been the eyes and ears of a war-time President, roaming the world, attending all the top conferences?Atlantic Charter, Casablanca, Cairo, Teheran and the two Quebecs. But there is a difference. William Allen White said of House: "His daily prayer was, 'Give us this day our daily compromise.'" Hopkins has more imagination, more drive, and, despite his fealty to the President, an innate stubbornness. There is another minor difference: House sought, created and finally landed his job of Presidential...