Word: factually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief obstacle to factual acceptance of the story: Roosevelt & Son last week denied that either the firm or Philip Roosevelt was trustee for any estate inherited by Franklin...
...this issue the first instalment of the report of the Political Actions Committee of the Harvard Liberal Club. During the past three weeks the members of the Committee have personally interviewed most of the candidates for public office in and from Massachusetts and have attempted to present the factual material they have gathered, together with an impartial estimate of the candidates. A summary of general conclusions will be printed after the reports on the candidates have appeared...
...excellent example of an editorial attempt to say something which has only succeeded in nothing much. As a matter of fact, the little editorial was pure gas which served but to air a prejudice. On the basis of the author's belief (He offers no statistics or factual information--we are to take his word for it) that the present Administration offers no solution to the depression, he utterly condemns the New Deal. Under the veil of criticism of New Deal policy, politics and politicians he conceals a far more reaching criticism of our entire system of government. His editorial...
Though to many a stanch Republican Henry Agard Wallace is a fire-breathing radical, he thinks of himself as a "middleaged, middle-course" person. New Frontiers, written with enthusiastic garrulity, is an argumentatively factual account-rendered of his stewardship so far, his hopes, plans for the future. He believes the new social machinery, such as AAA, "just as important" as the invention of the automobile. Chief objective of U. S. government in the next ten years, says he, should be "so to manage the tariff, and the money system, to control railroad interest rates; and to encourage price and production...
Well cast and well photographed, Our Daily Bread is emotional rather than factual, directed by Vidor with a frequent eye to such devices as a shot of Mary knitting to show goodness, a shot of the wench playing a blues tune to show badness. Best sequence is the final one, done in the Russian manner. In it the community works furiously against time to dig an irrigation ditch from the river to their fields. Of this Director Vidor says: "I tried to develop it like a ballet. I aimed to get the effect of mounting drama through the movements...