Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Casey version of the play is the tragic muddleheadedness of the revolutionists, the Irish romanticism that made their rebellion fizzle off in ranting, saloon fights and ill-timed heroics. In RKO's The Plough and the Stars the theme is the considerably less specialized one of conflict between love and patriotism. Jack Clitheroe (Preston Foster) and his wife Nora (Barbara Stanwyck) are assing in the park when he is summoned to his post as commandant of the Irish Citizens Army. Nora, who has already tried to keep him at home by destroying notification of his commission, sees...
...change the very nature of things, he turns for consolation to his mistress, the Baroness Vetsera, only to find that she too is tainted with the intrigue of the court which he despises, that she has been hired by the Emperor to spy on him. There is in this conflict between the ideal and the practical an inherent tragedy which nothing can destroy, and there is the brief moments in which this tragic sense makes itself felt through the wrapping of Mr. Anderson's verse which give value to "The Masque of Kings". But for the most part it lies...
...defaults as an excuse for lifting the Johnson Amendment, an excuse better termed a bribe. But in addition, the New Deal should be alert to the dangers of excessive American lending abroad a second time, both because of financial risk and possible involvement in the next European conflict...
...cabled the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews from Madrid, "would not be surprised six months hence to see himself seated before the same typewriter in the same place writing a summary of the first year of the war. . . . All Europe has been drawn into the conflict and there has been a mass uprising more significant than anything since the Russian proletariat rose in 1917. . . . The hatred which has been aroused on both sides is indescribable. ... It is a question whether France and England can keep out indefinitely If those countries join in to help Madrid there will...
...more than 250 letters came into the National Lawyers Guild's Manhattan offices, others were addressed to Mr. Walsh personally. Preceding a national convention in Washington next month, scores of cities sought charters in the Guild, affiliation with which, the Guild's manifesto set forth, "will not conflict with membership in any other organization...