Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Brunschwig advocated a future constitution for France which would closely resemble the American constitution. The British bombing of France, he said, was accepted and even welcomed as a blow to Germany. Of the Free French movement he slimed "Free France will die the day that all France is again free...
...melodramatic journey from coast to coast shows Hitchcock at his best. It gives movement, distance and a terrifying casualness to his painful suspense. It leads the hero to the palatial Nevada ranch of the master saboteur (Otto Kruger), into the hands of the police, out of them to an abandoned desert mining town loaded with paraphernalia to blow up Boulder Dam, on to Manhattan and an ironic denouement. The Girl (Priscilla Lane), of course, is picked up en route...
Guerrilla's story is an action tale of how one guerrilla movement grew big enough to drive the Kaiser's spike-helmeted legions out of the heart of the Ukraine in World War I. Its photography is undistinguished, its climaxes sometimes reminiscent of a Hollywood Western, but it has drive and spirit, occasional good humor, and a fine feeling of what the Russian people fight...
Here in Boston to report to local anti-Vichyites on the occasion of Joan of Are Day yesterday, France's unofficial ambassadors to the U.S. originally planned to come to Cambridge to consult informally with the nucleus of the Harvard movement headed by Georges Gerad...
More serious than some of the laws themselves, is the large number of States that cling to such restrictive statutes. Twenty-seven have anti-migratory laws which have effectively stopped the free movement of war workers regardless of the importance of their skills to armament industries. Every State has a law "limiting the rights of persons to engage in certain professions." This limits the supply of qualified persons, such as nurses, for war work. So far only New York has modified this statute. In 45 States trucks over a certain size and length are prohibited, which naturally means thousands...