Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opposition. No longer could cynics-as they had in the days of Vichy appeasement-accuse the State Department of "playing 18th-Century whist with 20th-century bandits." The U.S. was now, under the stress of war, playing somewhat of a bandits' game itself...
Many delicate questions face more than 150,000 U.S. soldiers & sailors who are Orthodox, Conservative or Reformed Jews. They must somehow adapt to war conditions the ancient precepts that rigidly prescribe the daily life of a Jew who lives by the Jewish Law. Last week these 20th-century Gideons got an adviser. To the Manhattan headquarters of the Jewish Welfare Board went Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein as executive director of the J.W.B.'s committee on Army & Navy religious matters...
...West Coast theaters controlled by 20th Century-Fox have discontinued Dish Nite. Reason: Why waste dishes when war workers rush to eat out of your hand...
...Black Swan (20th Century-Fox) dives headfirst into a Technicolored splash of kicking señoritas and their buccaneer abductors, settles down to handsomely routine piratical high jinks. For Sabatini-addicts there is veteran Director Henry King's expert translation of Sabatini's romantic novel about young love and buckets of blood on the Spanish Main. For others there is a coy love affair between Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara...
...this pinpoint controversy looms an important issue. The Government's $25,-ooo salary ceiling has severely reduced the amount of work movie stars can do for pay. Hollywood wants its stars to use up their working capital in pictures, not on the air. But if all studios joined 20th Century's boycott, radio would lose a majority of its best names. Gene Tierney's husband's cigars might be the entering wedge...