Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Which Bandwagon? In the thunderous days of President Lázaro Cárdenas, Lombardo had armed his workers, organized the Workers' Administration to run the railroads, bossed the left-wing majority in Congress. Under moderate President Avila Camacho he was stripped of most of his power, but he hung on by winning Latin American labor leadership. Within Mexico he now badly needs prestige. Both C.T.M. (the Mexican labor movement) and C.T.A.L. have lost strength because they have been so doggedly Stalinist. Possibly Lombardo may now be trying to recoup by walking away from the party line...
...went party-liner Robert Buse, leader of the bloody, 33-week Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, Nov. 11). In a bold sweep, the right-wingers captured all top offices and 15 out of 26 seats on the state council. The new president: Milwaukee's Herman Steffes, right-wing head of U.A.W.'s Local 75 at the Seaman Body division of Nash-Kelvinator...
...This week the Chinese Ministry of the Interior gave the right-wing Nanking newspaper National Salvation Daily a week's suspension for hoping Stalin would "die soon so the world would get a bit of peace...
...outstanding wartime documentaries as San Pietro, has lost none of his civilian cunning at whipping up top-drawer entertainment. He is still one of Hollywood's most talented moviemakers. Actor James Stewart, who worked his way up without ballyhoo from buck private to Air Forces colonel (and bomber-wing commander), has also boosted his rank as an actor. Having put aside his aggressively boyish, aw-shucks screen mannerisms, Stewart's first postwar performance is certain to be eyed respectfully by the people who award annual statuettes for superior acting...
...scene, combined with his grasp of China's language and history, have given him a view different from that of journalists who hit the country and fly off in a few days. A quick dose of hearty, bluff, American-style democracy, or solid support of the right-wing Kuomintang power-group is not enough, he maintains. "The fact that the imperial tradition had the inertia of three thousand years behind it and was formally abandoned only in 1911 should give us pause. How can we reasonably expect that even a people so politically gifted as the Chinese would remake this...