Word: mindedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Field Marshal Smuts is Prime Minister of a country split into sharp oppositions: pro-war and antiwar, pro-British and anti-British, 8,000,000 underprivileged natives and 2,000,000 privileged whites. Well aware was Jan Smuts that his few fair-minded concessions to South Africa's colored...
Then matters suddenly changed. In recent weeks Giraud has ousted some of the more distasteful Vichy administrators. He sent eagle-beaked Yves Chatel, Governor General of Algeria, off to sympathetic Spain. He placed the anti-Vichy René Chambe in charge of propaganda. Charles Brunei, anti-Vichy former mayor of...
>Giant United Airlines wants to buy 75% stock ownership in Mexico's twelve-year-old, 1,700-mile Lineas Aereas Mineras, which flies from the U.S. border to Mexico City, other points. Control of L.A.M.S.A. would give United a feeder line into Mexico, put it in a good spot...
>The noble-minded Hirobumi Ito (1841-1909), who drafted Japan's toothless constitution; who, almost alone among the Japanese of his time, realized that one might deal with the West "by diplomatic give and take"; and whose civilized hopes were used to throw dust in the eyes of the...
The cast in general is up to its great dramatic roles and Mabel Paige is particularly phoney and constantly intoxicated mother. It's well worth the price of admission. And, of yes, there's that exciting little sequence where Helen Walker pulls up her skirts to trap an evil-minded...