Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court in nearb'y Newark by C. I. O. and the Civil Liberties Union to defend himself against a charge of abridging the constitutional right of free speech-Norman Thomas, whose Socialist Party claims partial credit for ex posing Jersey City as a place where civil liberties are dead, appeared in Newark's Military Park to berate Mayor Hague publicly. His reward: howls, band music, ripe tomatoes, rotten eggs, an announcement by the park commissioner that hereafter Newark, like Jersey City, will permit no more anti-Hague meetings...
Twice during the past year Great Brittain, France and the U. S. have appealed to the "world's conscience" against bombing of open cities. Fortnight ago. Canton, China, was subjected to a series of severe raids. Result: 1,000 dead, 1,500 wounded, widespread destruction. Following week the Spanish Leftist cities of Alicante and Granollers were blasted unmercifully. Listed victims: 600 dead, 1,500 wounded, women and children predominating. So last week, unanimous Big Protest Series No. 3 was issued so simultaneously from London, Paris and Washington as to seem suspiciously like joint action...
...last month announced that a quorum of Hollywood's top-ranking stars were "poison at the box office." Chortled Mr. Brandt, whose picture was doing almost as lively a trade as Mr. Jensen's just down the avenue: "It took a star like Valentino who has been dead twelve years to bring people to the box office...
When the doors were unlocked last week, the legends evaporated. Painted in true fresco† in warm and rich greys, browns and purples, the mural dramatized the productive and destructive possibilities of science with contrasting machines for war and peace, gears and shells, bombs and books, live workers and dead soldiers. Obviously inspired by Orozco, it differs from the Mexican's work in the technical exactitude with which Engineer Egleson painted factories and machinery, the sobriety of the human figures, wooden in comparison with Orozco's energetic and muscular people...
...return to the brisk action film of the G-Man and public-enemy cycle that pulled them out of their last slump. For such a return, James Cagney, now back on their payroll, seems to be just the ticket. The Warners also plan Hell's Kitchen, with the Dead End boys; Juarez, with Paul Muni; for prized Actress Bette Davis, four stormy stories. Total planned: 52 features...