Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Villains. The charges against Grösz: black-marketeering, helping non-Communist refugees to escape to the West, plotting with the U.S. to overthrow the Hungarian government. The Communist version of the "plot": Yugoslavia...
...hunting a second wife. All the time his capable, attractive housekeeper (Billie Worth) silently yearns for him, though-except for the fact that he is Joe E. Brown -there's no telling why. The tale has little substance and less suspense, and has to pad out its skimpy plot with a lot of courting among the younger...
Transamerica's expansion did continue; but so did the FRB suit against it. Stern old Amadeo P. Giannini denounced the whole thing as an Eccles plot. In any case, he had been reducing Transamerica's interest in the Bank of America. After old A.P.'s death, his son and successor, Lawrence Mario Giannini, kept on selling Transamerica's holdings in Bank of America, once 99%, until they were reduced to only 7.66%. Said Mario Giannini: "The Bank of America is not controlled by Transamerica in any manner...
...showdown on the Munoz plan occurred last fall, when lunatic-fringe Nationalists tried to assassinate President Truman and Governor Munoz to block registration for this week's vote. Horrified, Puerto Ricans repudiated the Nationalists. Now serving a sentence of seven to 15 years for his part in the plot, Nationalist Boss Pedro Albizu Campos was under examination by psychiatrists last week to determine whether he is sane...
...Date with Judy (Sat. 11:30 a.m., ABC-TV) transforms another just-folks radio family into a daytime TV show. The Fosters come equipped with a whimsical father, a lovable but levelheaded Mom, and a lackwit, adolescent son, all working as background for daughter Judy (Pat Crowley). The plot throws Judy in love with an oaf named Oogie, supplies her with boundless opportunities to pout, indulge in temper tantrums and end nearly every scene in a drugstore, where a finger-pointing clerk urges viewers to stock up on Sponsor McKesson & Robbins' products...