Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flemington's tax rate, now 28? and by far the lowest in New Jersey, is still dropping. By the end of next year, Flemington and Hunterdon County will have paid off $11,000 in bonded debt with city slicker money, will be debt free. What will happen then, Flemingtonians do not know. But they can dream-of a super-velvety municipal golf course, a Hollywoodian town swimming pool, even a Utopian tax holiday...
Here is a spy story that could only happen in a pulp magazine or Hollywood, but somehow it turns out to be good entertainment, so everybody's happy except Rommel. The picture is distinguished by two things--the dialogue, which is superb, and the acting of all concerned, with top honors going to Akim Tamiroff and Erich von Stroheim. The latter, who is continuing where he left off in World War I as the Horrible Hun, plays Marshal Rommel in a way that will not detract at all from the legend of the same name...
...sticky atmosphere, in which anything could happen, cleared suddenly. The impossible became a fact. After three hours behind closed doors, the seven conferees announced that the French Committee of National Liberation had begun to function. By week's end it was clear that De Gaullism would dominate the central power. Peyrouton was replaced by General Catroux. Notorious ex-Vichyite General Auguste Noguès (he had opposed the U.S. landing at Casablanca) stepped out as Resident General of Morocco. The purging process, first of many hard tasks before the new France, had begun. This week, the seven-man committee...
...obvious that Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson are in a complete fog about the past. . . . These are a series of sour stories about the European peoples who had the impertinence to defeat the Germans in the First World War. . . . How does it happen that Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson, so severe on states that are stumbling blocks to their neighbors, have hardly a word to say against Germany? This book is full of propaganda, direct and indirect, in favor of the common enemy. . . . There are hints that the United Nations are really as bad as anybody else...
...soldiers off to war. The Transportation Corps moves the outfit-usually by rail-from the training camp to an assembly point, somewhere in the vicinity of a port of embarkation. There the soldiers spend a period undergoing last-minute conditioning and examination -and wondering what's going to happen to them...