Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of conduct which I am following in this case is consistent with my sense of responsibility as President in time of war, and with my deep and unalterable devotion to the processes of democracy." (Cracked one cynical newsman: "I see the President has given the Constitution a 24-day reprieve...
...strictly military action, Scriptors W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and Director John Farrow stuck to the Wake Island log and made their record "as accurate and factual as possible." But the participants and their conduct at ease and in combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does...
...occupied men and women in this country about 55 are working for the Government, either in the forces or in the factories, or in other branches of Government service. Almost all the rest are doing work, which even if it serves the civilian population, is necessary to the conduct of the war. . . . To reach our present level, you (in the U.S.) would need to have nearly 40,000,000 people working for the Government...
...PHANTOM LADY- William Irish-Lippincott ($2). While a convicted murderer watches the minutes tick away in the death house, his best friend, sweetheart, and a detective conduct a death-studded search for a shadowy lady who holds the life-saving alibi. An exciting chase with a stunning climax...
Their legal training was augmented by a moot court-martial in which members of the School tried one of their number for conduct unbecoming an officer and attempted to prove that he had charged enlisted men for performance of the marriage ceremony...