Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Train from Madrid (Paramount) is the first commercial film treating of the Spanish Civil War, and is carefully blue-pencilled to exclude all but stock situations which neither Rightist nor Leftist sympathizers could possibly object to. Karen Morley is in love with Gilbert Roland who is in love with the same girl (Dorothy Lamour) as Anthony Quinn...
...White House: "It seems to me . . . that the final analysis of his whole proposition is the President agrees he will spend practically the same amount of money as the members have decided they want to spend for the same purposes. If this is true . . . why does the President object to Congress earmarking the money and insist on reserving to himself the right to earmark it?" Another shot was added by Mr. Snell's New York colleague John Taber: "This bill was full of pork when it came out of the White House. It was full of pork when...
...Taxing is a legal question pure and simple. Anyone has the right to do anything as long as the law does not say it is wrong. I object strenuously to treating income tax evasion as a moral issue. If the Government objects to tax evaders it should change...
...shot in 1801 by the Spaniards he had cheated. Edward Everett Hale was a Boston minister who helped whip up Union sentiment during the Civil War. When politicians like Clement Vallandigham of Ohio began to recommend separatism, Dr. Hale wrote The Man Without a Country as an object lesson. Dr. Hale named his hero Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest. At his trial he exclaims, "Damn the United States! I wish...
...spiritual intercourse, is, indeed, being sabotaged by the fear and the threat of war. The Hindenburg represented the world and for that reason our eyes lighted when we saw its silver grandeur in the sky. It contended with another world which might make it at any moment an object of terror and of hatred...