Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timing was opportune and opportunistic. Congress was about to begin work on the European recovery program, upon which most congressional leaders seemed to be in basic agreement. Republican Tom Dewey's approval of the program kept him in step with Republican congressional leaders...
...Will Pass . . ." If there was no essential agreement on Germany at Lancaster House, the Russians and everyone else knew what would follow. The U.S., British and French zones would draw closer together in an economic union. There might be no "separate peace" in the formal sense; occupation troops would remain. Western Germans would, however, get more chance to run their own affairs and to contribute to Europe's reconstruction...
Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox) is an important experiment, honestly approached and successfully brought off. A middling-fair argumentative novel, in which Author Laura Z. Hobson suggested a way to fight certain kinds of anti-Semitism in the U.S., has been made into an almost overpowering polemical film...
Producer Darryl Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through...
...such an unbalanced situation, cooperation is imperative. A tentative plan, now under discussion, gives the Union first choice on dates in the spring and fall seasons, around which the Houses are to arrange their programs. The big issue that threatens to delay a final agreement is the extent of Union ticket sales and advertising on any weekend when both organizations will plan dances. The inter-House Committee balks at the suggestion that the Union may publicize its dance in the visiting college on these conflicting dates. Fearing that the visitors will flock to the lower-priced dance, the inter-House...