Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public had not heard much about it, but the future of the Republican Party was quite possibly at stake. Politicians watched each little development as soldiers watched the news from Libya. The cast of characters was of the highest political stature: Franklin Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, Thomas E. Dewey, Alf Landon, Charles L. McNary, James A. Farley, Herbert H. Lehman, Joe Martin, and on down to a host of others...
...wide appeal that he can split great hunks off the Democratic Party and attract or split up the American Labor Party vote, which is the balance of power in New York politics. (In 1940 Roosevelt beat Willkie in New York State by only 224,000 votes, and the A.L.P. cast 417,000 votes of the Roosevelt total.) Now the A.L.P. is 100% against Tom Dewey...
...gross receipts going to Navy relief), are staging the best tennis show of the season. Except for Defending Champion Fred Perry, who fell on his arm opening night of last winter's professional barnstorming tour and is still unable to bend his elbow without wincing, its cast includes most of this generations best shotmakers. Favorite among the field of 32 is Don Budge, now a physical education director at Miami's Embry-Riddle Aviation School and still considered America's No. 1 tennist...
...made with industrial equipment largely built of plentiful wood and cast iron...
...film is less an adaptation of the bathetic whimsey which Essayist Jan Struther made into a best-seller than it is a fresh screen play conceived by Producer Sidney Franklin and four writers around the original. It is played for keeps by an exceptionally good cast. There is scarcely an off-key performance in the picture. Outstanding is womanly Greer Garson's Mrs. Miniver. She had to be, and is, exactly right...