Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood had the Harvard bug. If one actress could get free publicity by making Harvardmen look like asses, so could others. Leila Ernst made a half-hearted attempt when Hobbs placed her in Lampy's Post of Honor last winter, but the second real invasion was made by Marjorie Woodworth. This buxom blonde was trying every known means of getting her name and her picture in the papers last spring, and thanks to a shrewd and enterprising public relations man, one Bernie Kambers, she was doing right well by herself. Kambers himself decided on the Harvard angle and approached Coles...
...Editor Dark denounced his own established Church of England for living off taxes paid largely by non-members and off income from slum property ("money extracted from the half-fed for . . . bug-infested attics is paid to men whose business it is to preach the Gospel"). The Anglicans, he says, have strong support only from the middle class. "The once crowded slum churches in London . . . are now for the most part almost empty. The fashionable churches are emptier." Only 18% of the population attend any church regularly (U.S. estimate...
...preacher's son to postman and postman to Pullman porter took up the first twenty-five years of Snowball's life. Religion was the one thing he did not get from his boyhood. At the age of nineteen, while taking mail from the trains, he was "bitten by the bug to see the country at the expense of the Pullman Company." And for the next five years, as porter on the 20th Century Limited, that went from Boston to Chicago, he matured from wide-eyed innocence to philosophical manhood. As for seeing the country, he "looked up its worst...
...Battle of the Ukraine was a gigantic flanking operation with the Germans going deep into the stretch between the Bug and Dnieper Rivers, then swinging south to encircle the Russians at the Black Sea ports. Frontally the German gains eastward were out of all linear proportion to the great flanking sweeps which made the gains possible. A great break-through near Uman, 120 miles south of Kiev, paved the way for the final dash south to the Black Sea. By week's end the Germans claimed to have rolled across the Krivoi Rog iron-ore area, which had supplied...
This deal burst like a bomb on the sweltering, restless convention. The Reuther group bellowed: "Cheap politics." Dick Frankensteen's lame explanation that he did not want to "crucify" the North American local got more boos than cheers. President Roland Jay Thomas, as inept as a June bug, bumped his head against both sides. Many a cautious delegate believed that a Red purge might do U.A.W. more harm than good. But the Reuther group, angry at Frankensteen's flipflop, were out for blood...