Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Help from the South. It might have been all over then & there if New York City's Vito Marcantonio had not popped up with a demand that a final, printed version of the bill be read. The maneuver put off the final vote until next...
Fortnight ago he formally notified Queen Juliana that he would go on a hunger strike against the government's "wavering, incompetent and characterless" policy of appeasing the Nationalists. He went on a diet of fruit juice and unsweetened tea. His protest was in vain. This week van Suchtelen read the news of the government's agreement with the "rebels." This cup of tea was too bitter for him; discouraged, he broke his fast...
Soon after dawn a Sherbrooke lawyer named Hertel O'Bready, acting for the Provincial Police, appeared on the stone steps of Saint-Aimé. From a small red book, he read the hard-fisted Riot Act: "Our Sovereign Lord The King . . . commands all persons . . . immediately to disperse . . . upon pain of ... imprisonment for life. God save the King...
...collections. Before the commission's report was published, three Duplessis ministers went to Ottawa and appealed to the Canadian Papal Delegate, Ildebrando Antoni-utti, to intervene. The answer they got was indicated at week's end by Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, who asked the commission statement be read in all pulpits and that strike collections be taken every Sunday until further notice...
...Guinea Pig, the reverence and ribbing are directed at the British public-school system, traditional incubator of British snobs, heroes and statesmen. As part of a program inspired by the labor government, Jack Read (Richard Atten-borough), a kid from the wrong side of the London tracks, is enrolled in one of England's oldest, most snobbish schools. For several reels, while the camera conscientiously explores the virtues and vices of the school system, young Jack gets caned, taunted, snubbed and bullied by his masters and schoolmates. In the end he emerges a successful product of the British public...