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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something about Spain, Pfeifer crisply ticked off some hard facts of U.S. political life: the remarks of a few itinerant Congressmen did not mean that the U.S. as a whole was possessed of any overwhelming desire to take Dictator Franco back into the family. A committee staff member, C. B. Marshall, used stronger words: "We give loans only to governments who represent their people. Franco does not. Change your regime and we will change our policy toward...
Charlie sat down and wrote a letter to big-fisted, fast-talking Allan B. Kline, wealthy Iowa hog breeder who had expected to become Tom Dewey's Secretary of Agriculture and whose position as Farm Bureau president made him leader of more than 1,400,000 of the richest, most influential U.S. farming families. It was only fair, the Secretary told Kline, that the federation let the Department of Agriculture explain its Brannan Plan before the delegates tried to pass judgment...
...reason I didn't see him again . . ." Johnson began. MacInnis objected, but Judge George B. Harris let Johnson continue. "The reason I didn't see him again was because at the national committee meeting at which Harry Bridges was introduced . . Jack Stachel [one of the eleven convicted U.S. Communist leaders] said to the meeting that in the future Harry Bridges would not be brought to committee meetings for security reasons . . ." i.e., so that he could continue his West Coast labor work unhampered by the Communist label...
...heaviest (7 lbs.) and most expensive ($30 a copy) magazine on the market. It was also one of the least popular; only 3,000 copies of the bimonthly current (and sixth) issue were printed. Last week 30-year-old Publisher Malcolm Forbes, son of Forbes magazine's B. C. Forbes, announced that Heritage had died, leaving no heirs...
Samson and Delilah (Paramount) bedizens the Biblical story with all that $3,000,000 can buy: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, 600 extras and eye-crashing Technicolor, mixed by the lavish, lily-gilding hand of Cecil B. DeMille. The result may not be quite Old Testament, but it is Bible story shrewdly blended with sex, spectacle, and the merest suggestion of social comment to keep it abreast of current Hollywood trends. It is unlikely to tarnish Producer-Director DeMille's reputation for consistently making (as well as spending) more money on pictures than anybody else...