Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youth and Communism and Cornplow answers with speeches defending businessmen. When Cornplow refuses to give $500 to the Spanish government, Sara snarls at him, "Heaven knows I can't give anything with my wretched income," and Cornplow snarls right back, "I know I'm just a millionaire capitalist . . . only I don't expect to contribute for the privilege of being destroyed!" With a dozen of the 40 brief chapters in The Prodigal Parents sounding variations of that theme in varying degrees of abruptness, crudity, animosity, all the characters emerge as too intense to be as funny...
...more widely appreciated than those of any other artist in history. Three weeks ago, his Mickey Mouse created a minor government crisis in Yugoslavia. Last year, as "Miki-san," he was Japan's patron saint. In Russia the works of Disney are appreciated as "social satire," depicting the "capitalist world under the masks of mice and pigs." The late George V, it is said, would not go to a cinema performance unless it included a Disney film...
Married. Barbara Field, 19, athletic daughter of Capitalist Marshall Field III, great-granddaughter of the founder of the Chicago department store; to Anthony A. Bliss, 24, grandson of the late Cornelius N. Bliss, William McKinley's Secretary of the Interior; in Manhattan...
VERTIGO-Lynd Ward-Random House ($3). Woodcutter Lynd Ward's fourth and most straightforward picture-novel (others: Gods' Man, Mad Man's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage). Proletarian victims are a boy and girl from Manhattan's slums; Capitalist villain, an old man somewhat reminiscent of the late John D. Rockefeller...
...Right People, The bright and shining coming-of-age gift of universal suffrage and free democratic elections promised Russia by Comrade Stalin's Constitution (TiME, June 15, 1936, et seq.), being something new in Russia, naturally did not take quite the form which it has in Capitalist nations...