Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movies were not an important U. S. export, and the U. S. cinema industry was as isolationist as the rest of the nation. World War II found both the U. S. and its cinema industry in a different frame of mind. Though U. S. cinemagnates have gesticulated for months about the necessity for putting their $2,000,000,000 investment on a war basis, the effect of war on shellshocked Hollywood last week was an incalculable crossfire of fears, dangers, hopes...
...press was unanimous in its editorial endorsement of the President's address to the nation (TIME, Sept. 11) on neutrality. But there was considerable uncertainty about what neutrality was. Wrote the Atlanta Journal: "Adolf Hitler has brought Europe to this disaster. But we can also see that America now can best serve her own interests ... by keeping...
Some papers, like the Nashville Tennesseean, went shouting out into the street at the sinking of the Athenia: "German frightfulness . . . again roams the seas. . . . This nation wants no war, but there is no question where its sentiments lie." Others, like the Baltimore Evening Sun, remained stiffly in the parlor: "Neutral, as a nation, we are. And neutral we must be. A nation cannot afford the luxury of living-room emotions...
...subject of propaganda most editorialists were careful to warn their readers against claims made by both sides in the war. But they could not resist the chance to take a sideswipe at radio. Wrote the Chicago Tribune: "Radio permits direct connection with virtually every European nation. The official liars will be as busy as they were a quarter of a century ago . . . but this time we will be able to listen to both liars and compare their claims...
...cities-Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Denver, Portland, Ore.-there was plenty of pulpitation about the War, but no preaching of crusades, no flag-waving. If, as has been suggested in recent months, the U. S. is more embittered against Germany than at the beginning of World War I, the nation's ministers had done their utmost to curb that bitterness last week...