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...remarkable to discover how many insidious implications, probably unconstitutionalities, and vicious vaguencesses Attorney-General Barnes has been able to be fined ten thousand dollars for employing a maid in Dunster House who had expressed approval of the United Nations. The bill provides, in other words, for the punishment of employers of guilty persons. It also makes any employee--not only teachers, susceptibe to guilt. And it deems approval of communist party . . . doctrines" to be illegal. But it does not indicate what these "doctrines" are, and consequently support of the U.N., which is advocated in the Communist Party constitution, could certainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Barnes Bill | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

...noisily. Here the commercial Jazz is present but not overpowering, and the picture wends its pleasant way without mishap. A perhaps interesting note: Betty Grable is in the billing, but it was impossible to find her in the movie. Perhaps she dyed her hair, or perhaps she was a maid, but don't look too hard and you'll be safe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/3/1948 | See Source »

...Dedicated Girl. Sonja, ten times world's champion, was not very popular around Ottawa, after a visit in 1932 (as an amateur) when she demanded, but did not get, $2,000 expense money for herself, papa, mama, trainer, maid, dog and parrot. She was never Barbara Ann's ideal, but she represented her objective. At eleven, Barbara Ann took one big step toward that objective-by becoming junior champion of Canada. Two years later, in September 1941, Clyde Scott collapsed while watching a bridge game, and died. It almost broke his daughter's heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ice Queen | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...post as full-fledged ambassador to Chile. He was a kind, popular diplomat and sorry to leave his Swedish friends. "However," he said, "I shall return." On Christmas Day, in high spirits, he gave a farewell party in the legation's sumptuous dining room. Maria, the maid, brought in a letter. Legation Secretary Marquis Gian Gaspari Cittadini-Cesi looked at the disjointed scrawlings. "This man is mad," he told Ricci. "You should not receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Christmas Caller | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...maid ushered the caller into the study; he was an Italian named Giuseppe Capocci. The maid served him a glass of vermouth and invited him to drink the minister's health. Capocci glumly refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Christmas Caller | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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