Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State's tireless critics have had three longstanding complaints. The Department, they said, was: 1) haughtily indifferent to what the public thought; 2) so inefficiently organized that high officials kept tripping over one another's feet; 3) downright reactionary.
South Pacific (by Howard Rigsby & Dorothy Heyward; produced by David Lowe) is not a good play, but it has the fairly rare Broadway desire to by-pass trash for truth. It tells of a torpedoed Negro seaman (Canada Lee) who lands on a Jap-held South Pacific island. Having been...
*First was in Massachusetts Bay Colony, where a few fines were assessed against employers who violated the Act of 1633. The Act set the pay of "master taylors" at 12d. (24.3?) a day, "inferior taylors" at 8d. (16?) "with dyett," also provided that the rates' for unskilled labor be...
A year ago, alarmed by widespread and contradictory criticism of U.S. combat planes and its effect on morale, OWI made a survey, published a report. Its warning: no plane can be found good, bad or indifferent until it has met its final test-battle. Its "verdict: although U.S. air power...
Con You Top This? is predicated on the sure-fire principle that every man has an irresistible urge to tell his favorite wheeze. The program is nothing but jokes, good, bad and indifferent, and there is nothing quite like it on the U.S. air. Some 10,000,000 steady listeners...