Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still alive, the novel represented U. S. Fascism as making headway in 1936. Last week, with no such trend in sight, the time was billed in the programs as "Very Soon-or Never." The main outlines of the novel are preserved, but instead of trying to dramatize a patchwork of fragments from the book, Collaborators Lewis & Moffitt wisely created some new incidents on which to prop the play. One of them shows Corpo troops going from house to house to break radio tubes because Senator Trowbridge is broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada. In the novel, Doremus Jessup...
...other picture, is a piece of sentimental trash. Supposedly concerning the life of Stephen Foster, this picture should receive applause only from the most susceptible tearjerker addicts. Studded with an incompetent cast headed by Douglass Montgomery and Evelyn Venable, directed with incredible stupidity, and put together like a patchwork quilt, the movie was almost enough to make this Spartan reviewer join the chorus of groans coming from some neighbors in the aisle. Even Foster's magnificent folk-songs--and this is the crowning infamy--were rendered wretchedly. After seeing "Harmony Lane," even "Shipmates Forever" seemed to approach the requirements...
...detailed Convention journal kept by scholarly James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," was published. Only from these notes, the meagre official journal and a smattering set down by other delegates, have judges and scholars learned what the Fathers thought & said while they were piecing together their great patchwork of compromises...
...prosperous and at peace. Early in 1936 it had become apparent that the nation was headed toward piecemeal sabotage of the old Constitution. The Constitutional Convention of 1937 had thoroughly reordered the patchwork of compromises put together by the representatives of jealous sovereign States just 150 years before. The waste and confusion of 48 State governments were wiped out. The nation had been carved into a few great regional Commonwealths along economic lines. Freed from the tyranny of a Senate minority (treaties now required only the joint consent of a majority of both Houses), successive Presidents had concluded sound trade...
Power. Only one-eighth of the Mississippi River system's potential electric power is harnessed. Only one Mississippi Valley farm in 16 is served by power lines. The Valley's present power map shows "a crazy patchwork of operating areas and a mass of independent, unrelated generating units." Remaking that map, the Committee would bring cheap electricity to every home by Federal coordination of all power transmission not only in the Valley but in the entire U. S. Lining up with the Roosevelt "yardstick" policy, the Committee was nonetheless careful to point out that such unification would...