Word: intention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combined presence of Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr. Gable, as the footloose correspondent of a U. S. paper, finds himself involved in the political intrigue of the U. S. S. R. That also includes Miss Lamarr who strolls placidly through the role of a Soviet streetcar motorman intent on the cause. Scripters Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer's picture of bungling and dawdling inside the Soviet is a lot less witty, and less tender than Greta Garbo's memorable film Ninotchka. But their slapstick commentary is a relief from the realities of headlines...
...January 1939, with no apparent hell-raising intent, good Mr. Logan introduced an eighth version of his old bill to set up uniform standards of procedure for quasi-judicial Federal agencies. He had long felt that bureaucracy's big ears needed pinning back. Franklin Roosevelt, acting on similar motives, set up a committee in February 1939. under Law Expert Dean Acheson, to study the same problem. The Brookings Institution pondered; bar associations brooded...
...dodged back behind the wall-but not until he had snapped another picture of Ed McNew. One of the most remarkable newsphotos ever taken, staring straight into the muzzle of a gun, it was evidence enough, thought Howard Jones's editors, to convict Bondsman McNew of assault with intent to kill...
...convinced that Roosevelt holds no malice against his bitter foes, that his intent is finally a blueprinting of peace, and that his deeds are for the national welfare and not for politics, the country will be persuaded into unity under his leadership...
...near to an apotheosis as a man of Mr. Carpenter's discretion would ever go. The music becomes broad and majestic and affirmative, only to drop off at the end in a charmingly deprecatory manner." Said the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy: "Attractive with no apparent intent to be profound, call it a graceful compliment to the jubilee season...