Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world, still one-sixth of the States persist in charging their electorate for the minimum right of choosing public servants, and as a result turn two-thirds of their citizens away from the polling booths. This is not just a matter of democracy spending a long time to take root. Democracy has been brazenly and defiantly legislated out of existence...
After reminding you that any resemblance between the characters in the picture and a bunch of crooks in Louisiana is exactly what the authors intended, the film proceeds to chronicle the attempts of Victor Moore, a Caspar Milquetoast Senator from "a No'th'n state," to root out the stench that made New Orleans famous. Moore is superb, and he is the only member of the cast who isn't handicapped by the failure to speed up the tempo of the movies. Bob Hope plays William Gaxton's original role and while Hope is always good for his share...
...Storm is Canby Kittredge, village boy from Pendleton in the Berkshires, who made good as a Manhattan advertising executive only to realize at last that advertising is a form of hyperbole. Its heroine is his wife Christina. Only One Storm is the story of their efforts to re-root themselves in Canby's home town, where Canby has bought back the old Kittredge home, and a local press with which he proposes henceforth to earn his living. But before the Kittredges can solve the problem of re-rooting, they must make the great decision: Should one, or should...
...just what the driving force of the United Nations is. The book is a statement in something more than platitudes of a faith to fight for. In it Lorwin brings the common doctrine of democracy up to date and lays down a fourteen point program that cuts to the root of the disease that has paralyzed world progress for ten years...
...President William Green, asking him to purge the racketeers from their union. Said the sand hogs: "The 'take' by racketeers in this field goes far beyond anything ever dreamed of by Scalise, Browne and Bioff. . . . The American Federation of Labor is pledged to root out racketeers from its ranks. We ask that you join with us in carrying out that pledge...