Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inquirer posted on its masthead the slogan: "An Independent Newspaper for All the People," and it has kept its promise of independence. It has soured on Governor James, whom it helped to elect, has roasted the Legislature for killing Philadelphia's much-needed City Charter Bill, will back a Democratic mayoralty ticket next fall if Annenberg does not like the Republican nominee. Publisher Annenberg likes to think of himself as a crusader, wound up one editorial with a neat metaphorical blend: "Political skunks can wear themselves out directing their poison gas at me. I shall continue...
...hands out. His men admire him, too, for insisting that the paper run the story of his income tax troubles (TIME, May 1) on the front page. Advertisers think the Inquirer's, circulation has been inflated by $12 clocks given with ($4) subscriptions, believe it will eventually drop back to about 300,000 daily and 500,000 Sunday. (Present Sunday circulation is 1,000,000, but nearly half of that is "jackrabbit," a predated edition circulated from Maine to California-Peoria, Ill. accounts for 5,000 copies-and distributed by newsdealers who make huge profits selling Annenberg racing sheets...
...history of Hollywood enterprise than as history straight, Land of Liberty recalls the cinema great from Griffith (America) to Disney (Building a Building), not forgetting Mae West (Belle of the Nineties) or the MARCH OF TIME. It opens with Roosevelt II rededicating the Statue of Liberty, scurries back 400 years to show why the early colonists left Europe, hits the high spots from then on. Main omissions: Depressions...
Five Came Back (RKO Radio). In a U. S. airliner headed for Panama City, twelve set out. There are two pilots and a steward, an old professor and his wife on vacation, an effete young man eloping with a millionairess, a big-shot racketeer's little son in care of one of the mob, a tough girl on the lam from her past, an anarchist returning to his homeland gallows with a captor to whom he means a $5,000 reward...
...good screen story, a capable unstarred cast and direction that supplies suspense of Alfred Hitchcock calibre lift Five Came Back out of the Swiss Family Hollywood class and up to the distinction of a sort of Stagecoach on wings. Director of Five Came Back was 35-year-old John Villiers Farrow, an Australian-born seaman-author-director and soldier of fortune who jumped a ship in Honolulu, worked his way to Hollywood in 1927, has been a cinemauthor and director there, as well as in France and Austria. As a low-budget director at Warner Bros, he fired no worlds...