Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have objected that the sitters are not aristocratic enough; one letter flatly comments on the "common-looking" individuals portrayed. Rockwell himself says: "I put everything I had into them, but they could all stand more work." He wants especially to rework Freedom of Worship and Freedom from Want. The latter is perhaps weakest: Rockwell's acquaintance with want is decidedly impersonal...
...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...
...bills before Congress would weasel. It simply repeals specific mentions of the Chinese, leaving them still barred by the general ban. The two others would permit Chinese to enter and become citizens of the U.S. under the quota system. The latter bills immediately raised the specter-mainly in the Hearst press-of a horde of cheap Chinese labor swarming into the U.S. The fact: China's quota would permit the immigration of precisely 105 Chinese a year...
...document the latter charge, Mr. Ickes pointed out that the House (Kerr) subcommittee which originated the rider ousting and besmirching the three officials had: 1) examined Mr. Lovett in secret session, for only two hours, on only one day's notice; 2) supplied him with no advance specification of the charges to be brought against him; 3) not permitted him to bring counsel, or to summon witnesses in his behalf; 4) provided neither him, nor the Interior Department, nor the Congress with a transcript...
These two latter elements of the system, free trading and lending, can best be understood in the light of their joint purpose: to earn a maximum return by lending capital to those parts of the world which show most promise in undeveloped resources. The greatest stimulus for development is a ready market, and so, because basic foods, for instance, could be raised more cheaply in new countries, Britain opened her home markets to farmers and ranchers of the U.S., Argentina, the Dominions. At the same time British investors lent money to build railroads, grain elevators and packing plants...