Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basically, Tobacco Road has outlived its usefulness. Years ago it might have painted a strong picture of the condition of backwoods farmers, which is definitely a national tragedy. But with a second rate cast and a misguided press agent, the show is prevented into legitimate burlesque. A sincere effort at saying something constructive, plus the denial of vulgarity merely for vulgarity's sake might again put Tobacco Road on the theatrical...
...must be withheld by employers on all earnings over $12 a week. (Farm hands and domestic workers will not have the tax deducted, but must settle with the Treasury next year.) It will cast the first income-tax cloud over many a new-rich war worker: an estimated 49,000,000 persons will have to pay it. But for all taxpayers, it has a silver lining of which few are yet aware...
...League won less than one-fourth of the seats officially reserved for Moslems in the Provinces; in the Sind, where Moslems are preponderant, it won not a single seat; in the North-West Frontier Province, with a population 92% Moslem, it polled less than 5% of all Moslem votes cast...
...Pipe President Norman Felt Shelton Russell, who joined the company 33 years ago, has seen it grow from just another pipe producer to champion in its field. One of the first U.S. corporations to land war contracts, U.S. Pipe three years ago was selling millions of dollars worth of cast-iron water mains for Army camps, defense houses. Then Pipemaker Russell took on orders for shells, gun mounts, howitzer barrels, etc. Result: sales in 1941 jumped to a 15-year peak of $23,000,000; sales last year were still higher...
...Vice President, Johnson was Lincoln's choice and a stanch Lincoln supporter, a fact overlooked by historians who cast him as a villain. Like the members of Franklin Roosevelt's "Janizariat," Johnson was attacked as a whipping boy by Lincoln's enemies. The picture does not omit the drunken spectacle Johnson made of himself at his inauguration as Vice President, but the documented fact that he was no habitual drunkard is underlined in the film by a letter to him from Lincoln: "You ornery old galoot; don't you know better than to drink brandy...