Word: haired
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...incredible slip, the Secretary of Labor got her facts mixed on the split between the Federation and John Lewis, erroneously reporting that the ten original C. I. O. unions were "expelled" in 1936. Hair-splitting Mr. Green reminded her that the ten were suspended in 1936, that only nine ever were expelled, and that the unexpelled tenth (David Dubinsky's Garment Workers) is edging back into the Federation. Fanny Perkins further irked Mr. Green by observing that both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. "claim" 4,000,000 members. "We do not 'claim, we report...
...last two years Lanchow has meant even more to the "Free China" of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. It is the eastern terminus for the much-needed war supplies that come from the Soviet Union. Instead of the wool, fur, brick tea, vegetable oil and camel hair that used to be the lifeblood of Lanchow's trade, now airplane engines, bombs, ammunition, gasoline, military trucks are the chief commodities. The city is also the concentration point for China's slowly building Air Force. So important a military secret has Lanchow become in the scheme of war that in two years...
...airmen-pilots, gunners, observers, mechanics. They marched ashore singing The Beer-Barrel Polka. Their commander is as handsome a fighting man as the stenographers in London's Australia House have ever seen: Wing Commander Leon Vincent Lachal, nicknamed "Stumpy" though he is tall, blue-eyed, with wavy blond hair. (A number of Australians already flying with the R. A. F. may be transferred to "Stumpy" Lachal's command...
Charles Laughton's expert mugging, the acting of Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Walter Hampden, and a host of new and pretty faces don't redeem the crude bungling of the psychological plot at the hands of the Hollywood hair raisers. Confidentially, it's only fair...
Fluttery Hilda Davis (wife of Dance-Band Leader Meyer Davis), who owns a lock of Lord Byron's hair, a page from the Gutenberg Bible, a promissory note for $100,000 made out to E. L. Doheny and signed by Ex-Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, announced with pride her purchase for $15,000 of the original manuscript of Johannes Brahms's First Symphony. Said she: "Isn't it thrilling...