Word: patriots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subjects of the speeches ranged from excerpts out of Sir Walter Raleigh's "The History of the World" to a selection from John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." Lipson recited from "Statement to the Court on Being Convicted of Treason" by Sir Roger Casement, an Irish patriot who was hanged during the last war, and Thayer chose parts of Stephen Vincent Benet's "Notes to Be Left on a Cornerstone." Charles took selections from a speech of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., while Henry quoted a section of Melville's "Moby Dick." Nichols, the first speaker, used T. S. Eliot's poem, "Coriolan...
...appears that the newspaper publisher, a bulky, sinister, pince-nez-polishing fascist (Edward Arnold), has always intended to use the John Doe Clubs to get himself elected President and regiment the U. S. people into some sense. Doe learns this from the newspaper editor (James Gleason), a patriot who has got drunk with the horror of the idea. The notion of having the prime patriotic appeal of the picture delivered by a soused journalist (and ex-soldier) is a crowning piece of Capra-Riskin-Gleason virtuosity...
...Currently the Institute boys claim to have boycotted a young instructor who had turned out to be a Harvard A.B. Every student organization joins in propaganda for the one-way scrap; popular professors begin their courses with a stock Harvard joke; and the Freshman banquet gives rousing cheers for patriot Thomas Amasa Walker, "the guy that kept us from joining up with Harvard...
...Zelea Codreanu was corn and grew up in Rumanian Moldavia, a passionate, tormented patriot, who won a reputation as the greatest Jew-baiter in the most anti-Semitic town of the most anti-Semitic country in Europe. After World...
...less than half those of two years before-Selfridge resigned his chairmanship, took the inactive, empty post of president. But 1939's statement (for year ended Jan. 31, 1940) was worse: net profits had dribbled to a mere ?21,093. Harry Selfridge, who had called Hitler a great patriot in 1937, could now blame him for part of his troubles, since retail sales have collapsed since the war. But as stockholders wandered into their 32nd Annual Ordinary General Meeting last week, they knew there were other reasons too: 1) an ill-timed ?5,000,000 expansion scheme of eight...