Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's domestic affairs.-The State Department insisted that Patterson had merely flown to the U.S. for a medical checkup. But as soon as the ambassador had taken off for Washington, a campaign against him broke out in the Guatemalan press. The semi-official Diario de la Mañana labeled him an old-school imperialist. The Guatemalan Labor Federation's leftist political action committee charged that Patterson had engaged in "a great imperialist conspiracy against the leaders of Guatemalan institutions." The windy press charges seemed to sum up just about all Guatemala had to say against Patterson...
...normal actions of the people themselves. The Abbey Players have caught the underlying comedy in the lives of the poor but happy country folk-in the Irish superstitions nature an typical multitude of minor sins. These qualities appear in the blind faith of the townspeople in the ability of Ma Murnaghan to predict the future and their rush to bet all their money on her choice in the Irish National...
Aside from the activities of Ma Murnaghan, the movie is concerned mainly with the efforts of Michael Kissane to prove that he did not steal the church's money. He wants to do this so that he can marry Shealh, who unfortunately has become engaged to the banker. This intriguing problem is, of course, solved in the end with the assistance of Ma Murnaghan...
...acting in "Saints and Sinners" is perfectly adjusted to the film's major purpose, the subtle comedy of the people's lives. Michael Dolan as the lovable old Canon and Maire O'Neill and Ma do particularly fine jobs. Kieron Moore is proud and handsome as Michael, and Sheila Manahan portrays Shealh with proper simplicity and charm. Tom Dillon plays a visiting New Yorker with a fine combination of noise and stupidity...
...Michigan, young (39) Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, determined to succeed himself, was mixing with the common folk and earning a reputation as the best square-dance caller ever to stand alongside a fiddler ("Lady go gee, Gent go haw, Right allemande, just Pa and Ma"). Williams danced the polka with the Poles in Hamtramck, the czardas with the Hungarians in Ecorse. The Republicans, a bit breathless, felt a good deal like wallflowers. ¶ In California, Jimmy Roosevelt wound up a two-week "dry run" in his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. On street corners in 51 Northern...