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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps more significant than the fate of these ten is the fate of American movies. The motion pictures under fire were some of the better productions of the poor Hollywood crop. After this demonstration of muscle by the Thomas committee, the normally conservative movie makers, fearful of their delicate public relations, will become increasingly hesitant to make intelligent movies about any controversial problems. Stripped of all its garnishing this becomes though control, and thought control in the hands of men such as Mr. Thomas is more than dangerous, it is suicidal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

...whale was reduced to herring size last week. In a brief climax to a long legal fight, John Lewis floated once again into a Washington courtroom, sniffed contemptuously at newsmen, stood up and glared when Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough came in, then plumped himself down to hear his fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Gaffed | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

With many more pictures like this, Miss Davis's prestige may suffer the same fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Those, in addition to the immediate fate of 50 million Italians, were the stakes involved in the Italian elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: How to Hang On | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Nonetheless Cripps knew that, in the long run, recovery and the Labor Party's fate depended as much on British workers' willingness to hold the wage line as it did on any other measures in his budget. Said he: ". . . We must remember that the economic plan is not something of which any Government can guarantee the execution. ... In some matters, the Government can assist in bringing about the desired results; in others, it must be for the people themselves to conform voluntarily to the needs of the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cripps & Soda | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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