Word: window
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People's" Conference last week put the finishing licks on its "People's" Republic (TIME, Oct. 3). By unanimous vote, the hand-picked delegates chose Party Boss Mao Tse-tung as the Republic's chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief...
...want some exciting and highly entertaining theater, disregard the window at Mandrake and don't miss the big beginning at Brattle Hall this week...
Miss Carroll, frequently glancing out the window to display her million-dollar left profile told the open meeting that she had never liked the movies because she couldn't "live" her parts surrounded by a maze of movie-making aparatus. She thinks movies take the art out of acting, and she winces when she sees her own films...
...Window. A boy's-eye view of murder in a Manhattan tenement, with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...
Smiling Vagrants. The peace-pact talk, as the U.S.'s Warren Austin pointed out bitterly, was window-dressing: Moscow had spurned the U.S. offer for such a pact over Germany three years ago. The atomic-ban talk, as Britain's Ernie Bevin bluntly put it, was stupid; again & again, the U.S. had proposed genuine international control by a U.N. atomic-energy commission, and a vast Assembly majority approved the U.S.-backed plan (TIME, Dec. 20). But the Russians, while piously asking all nations to take the pledge and outlaw atomic weapons, 1) insisted that the U.S. chuck...