Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traffic problems, while never as ridiculous as in recent years, have rarely been sublime since Henry Ford first began bring cylinders. Back in 1927, Will Rogers told a group of traffic engineers that "this traffic congestion is becoming steadily worse." He proposed that on Mondays, everyone be required to drive in an easterly direction, Tuesdays west, Wednesdays north and Thursdays south. Then these motorists should stay home the other three days, leaving the field clear for weekend drivers...
Several large grants, including a $75,000 gift from the Ford Foundation, which were received during the last few months spared the School from making even more drastic cuts in this term's budget...
Kennedy. Idealist Ford flinches at Kennedy's plans to raise a defense fund, but, after all, what counts most is the acquittal of an innocent boy. Moreover, the defense is already hotly surrounded by a nationwide wave of antagonism stirred up by race baiters and hatemongers...
...Before Ford can get his case moving, he discovers that Kennedy has brought in the huge propaganda machinery of the "All-People's Party." Kennedy even works up a milling, militant "Free Angel Chavez Rally" in Madison Square Garden. He packs the place with hard-core Communists, hot-eyed hangers-on, droning speechmakers and "entertainers." Kennedy collects his defense funds, and the party has its martyr, as well as its unsuspecting suckers. Next step: the conviction of Angel Chavez as a springboard for anticapitalist propaganda...
Trial does not have to pound away at its theme; it jabs sparingly, but mostly in the right places. Glenn Ford, as the honest and sometimes bewildered lawyer, and Arthur Kennedy, as the smooth Communist manipulator, are both topnotch. Dorothy McGuire is just right as the reformed fellow-traveling secretary who regretfully looks on as Ford gets caught in the snare; Rafael Campos (The Blackboard Jungle) is a good Angel. And the picture has another attraction: filmed in black and white for a screen of much less than the common contemporary width, it can be comfortably watched by people...