Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With the courteous horror of the Lilliputians for the oafish Gulliver, British commentators have recently felt obliged to pin down the invading monster of American culture, and examine it at close range. One of them, Sir William Haley, director general of BBC, began plans last fall for a series of talks by qualified intellectuals on the impact of America on European culture. BBC's five lecturers-three Englishmen and an Irishman, with Harvard Professor Perry Miller concluding in rebuttal a fortnight ago-seemed to pull up two stakes for every one they drove, but succeeded here & there in tethering...
...Last fall the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference decided to let Germany build ships of 7,200 tons, provided the speed did not exceed 13¾knots. German shipping men sulked at these limits, asserting that they could not compete with larger, faster vessels under other flags. On grounds of military security, the British have opposed all plans to expand German shipping. The Germans claimed that the British were afraid of German competition. Said a U.S. official: "The British are hipped on the subject. You'd think we were advocating that Germany get the atom bomb...
When Meier & Frank, the biggest department store (and the biggest advertiser) in Portland, Ore., was charged with unfair labor practices last fall, neither the morning Portland Oregonian (circ. 214,916) nor the rival evening Oregon Journal (circ. 190,844) covered the story. Both papers privately said that it was merely an oversight, that they would report the National Labor Relations Board's final decision in the case in full (TIME...
...mistaken by the crooked mayor (Gene Lockhart) and his henchmen-relatives for Napoleon's feared inspector general traveling incognito. Then, hardly grown into his splendid Techncolored uniform and the hungry affections of the mayor's wife (Elsa Lanchester), Kaye becomes a cat's-paw and fall guy for the scoundrelly medicine-show boss (Walter Slezak...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue; with Broderick Crawford (TIME...