Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerned about the attitude of a candidate or his sponsors with respect to the rights of American citizens to assemble peaceably and to express publicly their views and opinions on important social and economic issues. . . . The American people will not be deceived by any one who attempts to suppress individual liberty under the pretense of patriotism...
...lines and own them, was started almost three years ago by Farmer Frank Wilson and his neighbor, E. C. Stieg. Promoters Wilson, Stieg and their neighbors borrowed $2,000,000 for their cooperative from the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington. What Governor Murphy called the "beginning of a new social order" for The Thumb, which will eventually own 1,300 miles of REA lines, was also a milestone for REA, the most extensive and expensive project it had yet promoted...
Always Goodbye (Twentieth Century-Fox) provides Barbara Stanwyck, as an up-to-date young woman caught in the web of social difficulties, with a perplexing problem and an extensive wardrobe. The problem is whether to marry the man she loves (Herbert Marshall), or the guardian (Ian Hunter) of her son, produced before she married anyone at all. The wardrobe is the inevitable equipment, in the cinema, of all young women who work in dress shops...
...been much doubt about the cinema's attitude toward mother love. Always Goodbye sheds no new light on the subject, but sound motivation, civilized dialogue, several noteworthy minor performances and Producer Darryl Zanuck's customary flair combine to lift the film well above the average of sentimental social drama. Best bit parts: the stereotyped roles of an excitable barber and a mercenary Paris taxi driver, brought to life respectively by Eddy Conrad and George Davis...
Convinced that abstract art has served its purpose, Ozenfant now believes that it is waning, wants painters to work for the social world and to paint for everybody pictures that will be recognizable to everybody. In Seattle he is preparing an exhibition of his own painting, finishing a semi-autobiographical volume, dropping the oblique, off-hand remarks that distinguish his work far more than its formal arguments. Typical Ozenfant aphorisms: "It is not art that fails, but the artist." "Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary." "Let us once a year . . . enjoy all our rights, including that...