Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt's choice was easy compared to Philip Murray's. With labor misbehaving, the President's method of slapping it down was to seize the plant of the employer. C.I.O. President Philip Murray could not slap anyone except his own followers. Since he took office he has been harassed by Communists, who became entrenched in C.I.O. ranks under the more tolerant leadership of John L. Lewis. A practical Catholic, Murray has no love for Reds. C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, which took over aircraft organizing, has been particularly plagued with them...
Most vehemently opposed to the bill were House Republicans.- Missouri's Dewey Short attacked the measure as "just another slap in the face and kick in the pants to the Axis," which was just as brash, said Short, as if he himself stepped into the ring with Joe Louis. Republicans trying to hobble the bill with an amendment which would prevent the President from transferring German and Italian ships to the British, cheered to the roof mention of Lindbergh...
Attempting to prove the maxim that children make the difference between successful and unsuccessful marriages, the film degenerates into a maudlin, slow-moving Hollywood case-history, which never seems to end. Cary Grant admirably performs the transition from slap-happy reporter to weeping father; and Irene Dunne--neither young nor undulating as she used to be--is passable as the sentimental mother...
...Lady Eve" has just enough of both slap-stick and character acting to make it a super-streamlised example of the plot-dialogue comedy. Barbara Stanwick can talk as fast as Miss Russell and vary her moods at a pace that approaches La Hepburn. Henry Fonda (as the dumb Eli) takes a script that could easily be overacted and plays it so convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns...
...Messrs. Shubert have brought back a well-dusted edition, replete with modernized lines that crack wise at Clark Gable's ears and Dot Thompson's voice and figures. It is one of those curious mixtures of slap-stick comedy and genuinely beautiful music, which doesn't shake up too well at times but which would find its justification if the cast were only to step out in front of the scenery and follow the orchestra through Rudolph Friml's famous score. The comedy does get pretty good in spots, and the immense Hope Emerson as Lady Jane, Don Gantier...