Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Harvard professors have joined a list of over 300 civic, educational, religious, and labor leader protesting the showing of the motion picture "The Iron Curtain," as increasing "the atmosphere of hysteria leading...
Release of the protest followed the opening of "The Iron Curtain" at the Metropolitan Theater last Thursday...
When Hollywood committed itself on the issue of communism last fall, under the pressure of Congress and Wall Street, every major West Coast studio rushed home, hoping to be the first to register priority on the film title "The Iron Curtain" for future production. Twentieth-Century Fox won the footrace and subsequently assigned a Mr. Milton Krims to fill in the required screen play. The same Mr. Krims can be significantly remembered for his other scenario--"Confessions of a Nazi Spy." The sure fire true story of the Canadian Soviet spy ring naturally presented itself as his answer: the results...
...movie, "The Iron Curtain," is now being shown in Boston and simultaneously in 400 other theaters across the country something of a record even for Hollywood in the wide-spread dissemination of propaganda. For the film is clearly just that. It is propaganda against a country with which we are now not at war. It is blatant war propaganda. It is the first step in the psychological softening...
...iron law of the white society still decrees that sexual relations between a white woman and a Negro are punishable with death "for both parties, or, at least, banishment of the woman from the community." The rigidity and violence of such a tradition, Cohn thinks, is a logical consequence of segregation, and segregation a logical consequence of the whites' refusal to tolerate intermarriage. He says flatly that there is no solution to the problem, if this is the problem. He believes that Northern Negroes and civil-rights defenders who, in attacking segregation, also attack complaisant Negroes as "handkerchief heads...