Word: grips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today Bobby Thompson draws the right-field assignment and Jack Donelan returns to the mound, with Buster Connolly patrolling left. Ben Akillian maintains his vise-like grip on the center field position...
...Frank Hague's ideas of law & order. Two years ago, shrewd old (73) Boss Hague had confidently handed the mayor's office over to the man he had carefully trained for the job-his nephew, Frank Hague Eggers. But Eggers lacked his uncle's sure grip, and now needed the old man's help to get reelected. Boss Hague hurried home from "retirement" at Florida's race tracks. Last week he shouted at a Democratic rally: "I really wanted to rest . . . But I stated that if conditions changed I would be back...
...Paso (Paramount) is a morally cross-eyed western about a young Eastern lawyer (John Payne) who has trouble telling right from wrong. Payne, just back from the Civil War, arrives in El Paso in search of his sweetheart (Gail Russell) and finds the town in the grip of violence and disorder. Landgrabber Sterling Hayden and his corrupt stooge, Sheriff Dick Foran, have the townspeople terrified. At first Payne tries unsuccessfully to unseat the villains by due process of law. Then he takes to rabble-rousing. Meanwhile, he begins to wonder if the end (civic order) justifies the means (taking...
Techniques vary, Some papers, like the Boston Herald, have done it bluntly, and on a propaganda level, stupidly. Last week, that paper splashed a story all over page one about the grip that communists supposedly had on Lawrence, Massachusetts, without a single fact to back it up. It pictured the mill town threatened by near-revolution in such a hysterical way as to amuse even the least skeptical reader; the thinness of the mixture made the Herald's story an obvious piece of propaganda...
...Catholic Action's comitati civici (citizens' committees) for a major effort. He named it Plan S (for syndicalism). He wanted to build up the Free Federation of Italian Labor, to rival the Red-run Italian Confederation of Labor (C.G.I.L.) through which the Communists have kept an iron grip on four million of Italy's workers. Gedda's goal was to enlist two million members for the Free Federation...