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...offered bonus to release grain," can you blame us if we picture the average American as a well-fed, heartless individual lacking in moral character? In our hearts we know it's not true, but for heaven's sake why don't the people get a grip on things and see that the food gets . . . into the bellies of the starving...
...informed as William Green must know that Fascism won't "grip America unawares" [TIME, June...
...Russia of $100 million worth of factory equipment and raw materials. They had swathed Vienna in red flags (mostly Nazi flags with swastikas removed), were feeding the Viennese less than 1,000 calories a day, flooding the country with worthless occupation marks, and were rapidly gaining an iron grip on Austrian economy...
Like "Double Indemnity" (also based on a Cain yarn), "Postman" involves the extra-curricular love affair of a married woman, the murder of the husband by wife and lover, and the net of justice that ensnares them. But where Barbara Stanwyck clearly was a woman powerless in the grip of passion, Lana Turner plays a peculiarly ill-defined character, driven in conflicting directions by muddled motives. Nor is Garfield, while more suitably cast, given a better organized role. The smaller parts are much neater; Cecil Kellaway as the husband and Hume Cronyn, as a lawyer who gets Miss Turner...
Senator Taft holds a firm grip on the pre-1948 G.O.P. machine, through control of its organization in the South-which for decades has been in the hands of Ohio Republicans. He stands quietly but determinedly between Brickerites on the not-so-far right of him and Stassenites on the not-so-far left of him. That is a fine position for a smart operator who might want to choose the 1948 presidential candidate-or be the candidate himself...