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...crisis blew up in March when the state senate refused to approve a $5,100,000 emergency appropriation to cover welfare payments for May and June. The legislators wanted new ceilings clamped on payments to individual families, which sometimes exceeded $500 a month. While Illinois' ineffectual Democratic Governor Otto Kerner bargained and pleaded with the senate, 352,000 people on the relief rolls began to go hungry...
MARGARET TRUMAN DANIEL BETTE DAVIS OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND JACK DEMPSEY CARMINE DE SAPIO THOMAS E. DEWEY OTTO DIBELIUS C. DOUGLAS DILLON EVERETT M. DIRKSEN MICHAEL Di SALLE JOSEPH M. DODGE FREDERIC G. DONNER JAMES H. DOOLITTLE JOHN Dos PASSOS LEWIS DOUGLAS DAVID DUBINSKY ALLEN W. DULLES
...that man, a leader of the Senate, Hubert Humphrey. She teaches girls to be women and inspires our sons to deserve such ladies: President of Radcliffe Dr. Mary I. Bunting. He has kept the flame of Christian hope alive for his people under two tyrannies, Naziism and Communism: Bishop Otto Dibelius. Compact car with a 500-horsepower engine, the Governor of Michigan, George Romney. Beauty is her business, and every woman here and every man knows it: Elizabeth Arden. In painting, I know what I like. I enormously like Edward Hopper. A novelist, wonderful, obsessed with America, John Dos Passos...
...finest casts assembed on a Harvard stage in recent years. As the fisherman who suspects the Americans' motives, Harry Cooper is vivid and strong. Anne Lilley Kerr is convincing in her desire, and Josephine Simon succeeds in transforming Rachel Verney's unique postwar experience into one of dramatic pertinence. Otto Holmberg turns the not-too-intriguing son into a sympathetic figure...
Employers eagerly seized on Erhard's figure, but the figure did not please ambitious Otto Brenner, 55, boss of the 1.9 million-member German metalworkers' union, the world's largest single union and sole bargaining agent for workers in 30% of Germany's industrial plants. When companies in Württemberg-Baden refused to grant an 8% wage increase to the metalworkers (who now draw an average 77? an hour), Brenner called a strike against such strategic targets as automaking Daimler-Benz and Bosch, which makes electrical systems for most German autos. Other employers retaliated...