Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepchild of Truman's official family, life for Lew was embarrassing enough. As the advocate of labor inside the Cabinet, Schwellenbach's existence was frequently made miserable by labor's jealous family quarrel. Latest instance came when Lew let word get out that he planned to appoint a C.I.O. member to the International Labor Organization conference to be held in Montreal in September. Since Sam Gompers helped found the I.L.O. in 1919, the A.F.L. had furnished every delegate to I.L.O. conferences. As soon as he heard of the slight, crusty Bill Green got off a scorching, four...
Spectators and delegates in the Paris arena last week watched him at work and saw a trained soldier-not a robot, but a quick-witted, iron-nerved fighter, attentive to the word from his superior, who reacts in disciplined grooves of mental habit...
Life in a Cellar. Vyacheslav Mikhailovitch Scriabin was born 56 years ago, the son of a store clerk in Nolinsk, 480 miles northeast of Moscow. At 16, by adopting the Russian word Molot (for hammer), he became Molotov the Communist-in whose vigorous, resilient carcass was buried Scriabin...
...Hollywood's pretty side prettier (see cut), got a look at the seamy side. A judge gave her five days in jail for doing 58 in a 25 m.p.h. zone. On her second day of confinement (in the company of some 40 ladies of the evening) she sent word to the outside world. Reported lovely Linda: "The place stinks...
...foot-in-mouth pressagent Russell Birdwell immediately started lighting up the red fire for the De Mers-Willis girl ("Her glance is as predatory as some wild thing, her movements as lithe and bodily outspoken as those of some jungle creature."). Apparently no one had passed him the word that Esquire had changed its tune. Said Publisher Smart: "The Varga Girl gave you the idea she couldn't do anything but recline. The new Esquire Girl is more wholesome. She's the kind of a girl you'd marry, or try to. She'll be regular...