Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others. Lobbyists will still be influential; an alliance of Dixiecrafts and Republicans will probably be able to block some important bills. But the importance of the state of the government this year is that now, after a brief Republican hiatus, the movement towards the human welfare society in America will continue. The President must fight just as hard in the future as he fought before November's election. But he now has a Congress that can be managed by Fair Dealers, and expectations of victories are more than justified...
Every now and then a movie is created which is so vital, so heartwarming that it must be seen by every man, woman, and child in America. Such a movie usually wins the Academy Award. In the meantime, however, the film companies must keep on putting out other less inspired pictures to stay in the black. Under these circumstances Paramount produced "The Paleface," a drama of the Old West which concerns the famous Calamity Jane and a mousy dentist. All who go to see this film with an open (preferably blank) mind will probably think it somewhere between riotous...
...immigrant Italian cobbler, Siragusa started making radio transformers 25 years ago in his father's Chicago shop. He developed an improved kind of transformer, and built his Transformer Corp. of America into the largest company of its kind in the world. Five years after refusing $5,000,000 for the business, he went bankrupt in the depression...
...then a first-rank U.S. literary hero. Leftish intellectuals and young people distressed by the depression saw his massive and radical trilogy, U.S.A., as a powerful plea for America's underprivileged. Written at a time when social novelists were likely to have more anger than talent, U.S.A. was a major literary achievement. Perhaps for the first time, an American novelist chose society as a whole as his central figure and used individual characters as mere illustrations for his thesis that America had been skidding downhill, socially and morally, since World...
Four years later, in Number One, Dos Passos picked up the story of Glenn's brother, Tyler, who lost his soul through power-hungry cynicism. After working as political handyman for a hillbilly demagogue, Tyler found himself as defeated in America as Glenn had been in Spain...