Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obviously the real question was the right of an employer to kick out anyone who is a Communist, acts like one, or refuses to say whether he is or isn't one. But when Cole's suit came before a federal jury in Los Angeles last month, the trial turned into nothing more than a legal test of MGM's morals clause. Judge Leon R. Yankwich, charged MGM, had made a cocktail-party observation that all of the accused should be rehired. Judge Yankwich denied it, refused to disqualify himself. In the trial he made it clear...
...Cole's defiance of Congress bring him into "public hatred"? Did he "offend" the public? Did he "prejudice" his employers? Did M-G-M forfeit the right to break his contract because it waited a full month to fire him? Said Yankwich: "If the studio knew, when Cole came back from Washington, what his conduct had been there and nevertheless continued to reimburse him, then I instruct you that M-G-M then waived its right to take action against...
Harry Brunner lived in a circle of fear. He feared life and, when war came, feared death. He trembled before the burdens of love and dreaded the void left by its absence. Watching himself as if he were a diseased stranger, relishing his troubles as if they were sweet delicacies, he could never act simply or spontaneously. Even after he had seen action as a naval flyer in the Pacific, he knew that his real war had to be fought within himself...
When he opened his eyes, the sick and half-drowned flyer saw an old woman handing him a gourd of soothing liquid. As he recovered he came to admire the natives' simple, tight-webbed community which, unlike modern civilization, gave each of its members a secure place; yet he also had to admit that this simplified life would soon make him restless. So he left the natives and went to live with Andrew Andersen, a white planter who had remained on the island even after the Japs had set up a garrison on its other side...
Andersen was the kind of man "who always chose that another might die so that he might live." When the Japs came, he cooperated; when Brunner came, he was kind to him. In him, Brunner came to see what he too might become if he stayed on. Andersen had a daughter; she was very beautiful and the next 15 pages are very predictable. When an American advance party hit the island to prepare for an invasion, Brunner joined the troops...