Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American" statutes of the Federal Government and 22 states, which keep out foreign products, should be revoked...
...European sellers must develop a more aggressive attitude toward the American market...
Last week the American Civil Liberties Union raised an outraged voice. In a letter to Governor Lane, Playwright Elmer Rice, chairman of its National Council on Freedom from Censorship, branded the board's proposal "flagrantly unconstitutional." Said Rice: "If the ... board is to have the power to ban pictures because the subjects are not presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board...
Stewart also manages a poignant conclusion: one by one the old American survivors die off, and Ish, an antique god whose scepter is a hammer, is left alone with the new generation. One day through the fog of years he sees a half-naked savage standing respectfully before him. "Are you happy?" he quavers. "Things are as they are," the savage replies in puzzlement, "and I am part of them." The Last American passes his scepter to the savage, and dies, murmuring with the grasses and the winds and with Ecclesiastes: "Men go and come, but earth abides...
Under the terms of the Fulbright Act, over 800 American men and women will receive grants next year for graduate study or teaching positions abroad; in return foreign nationals will come to the United States for similar purposes...