Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governing of Men (Princeton University Press; $3.75) is a full report on Poston, which-because of censorship -was the subject of many a wild rumor in the early days of the war. To Commander Leighton's detached eye, the war was only a minor cause of Poston's troubles. Many of those troubles sprang from the universal resentment men feel at being confined against their will, and from the universal conflict which results when different types of people are thrown closely together. For the 18,000 Japs at Poston were of all types. There were Christians and Buddhists...
After 78 days of committee consideration and two days of debate on the floor, the House last week approved U.S. participation in the Bretton Woods monetary program. On the final vote, party lines dissolved: 138 Republicans joined with 205 Democrats (and two minor party members) to pass, the bill, 345-to-18. (The dissenters were all G.O.P. bitter-enders.) The overwhelming vote was due to: 1) educational spadework by the Treasury Department; 2) sure-footed maneuvering by Speaker Sam Rayburn; 3) sober second thoughts by Republican House leaders. The nonpartisan character of the vote prompted a happy comment from President...
March on Shanghai. This minor military collision highlighted a major political fact-China's Communists were bursting out of their original area of power around Yenan. Their main objective: Shanghai and the China coast, where they expect U.S. armies may one day land...
Most or all of what he said about Argentina's strict censorship and jails crowded with political prisoners had been said before, in dispatches which other newsmen had sneaked out. But Cortesi packaged it all up, and with a good play by the powerful Times, it created a minor journalistic sensation. In San Francisco, it jarred the State Department's don't-let's-be-beastly-to-the-Argentines policy ; in Moscow, it got a jubilant reception...
Aside from the stars, a host of minor characters make up for some of the film's chronic dreariness. Mrs. Noosbaum, "I'm tellink mine hosband . . ." is rivalled only by John Carradine, in a ghoulish carbon copy of Ephraim Tutt sniggering while hunched over an organ keyboard and by Sidney Toler, who doffs his perennial mustache but is still Charlie Chan...