Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whipped the Republicans into line. He got fervent support from Missouri's Dewey Short, who opened an attack on New Deal spending by disdaining the microphone and bawling: "I never did like to speak through a tin horn. It's like kissing a beautiful girl through a screen door...
Argentina has sent the Rev. Jose Clemente Silva to screen the applicants. He takes former Fascists, provided they have no criminal records, but rejects Communists. Last week, irritated by this discrimination, the Communist-dominated Italian Labor Federation demanded the right to select the emigrants and asked for guarantees of labor conditions in Argentina. Father Silva threatened to call the whole thing...
Died. Sidney Toler, 74, veteran stage & screen actor, onetime leading man to Julia Marlowe, best known in recent years for his bland cinemacting of Chinese Detective Charlie Chan; of intestinal cancer; in Hollywood...
...James, by remarking that those who made and played the Franklin Roosevelt scenes "obviously loved" his father, gave what appeared to be an unofficial green light for a screen biography of the late President...
...Joke, Son (Eagle-Lion) brings radio's unreconstructible Senator Claghorn (Kenny Delmar) to the screen. The movie shows how he became a Senator despite his wife (Una Merkel), who also ran, and a bunch of Yankee-accented political gangsters. The Claghorn delivery rings out as nobly as the Voice of Bugle Ann. Visually the Senator is not so convincing, and his vehicle grates and clatters like loose buggy tires on a concrete pike...