Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another oriental potentate, the late Reza Pahlevi, Shah-in-Shah (King of Kings) of Persia, combined forthright admiration for Western social and industrial progress with a darkly suspicious opinion of the men who make it. As a result, he brought his 628,000-square-mile empire (about one-fifth the size of the U.S.) some mixed blessings. When the old Shah wanted railroads, for instance, he got railroads-but not always where his foreign advisers thought they would do Persia the most good...
...Heiress (Paramount) is a handsomely mounted, sumptuously acted film about a wallflower whose only social grace is a neat hand at embroidery. Directed and produced by William Wyler (Wuttiering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives), The Heiress bears the Wyler trademark of painstaking high gloss. It is also a solid and impressive movie aimed at adults...
...edits a highbrow magazine and runs away with the wife (five years older than himself) of a law student. After they have hitchhiked, ridden freights and slept in cheap hotels, she writes to her mother, who comes and takes her home, while Richard adventures on through the South. As social history, The Big Cage is sometimes authentic, sometimes unconvincing. As fiction it is notable mainly for Lowry's ability to take sentimental and overworked material and brighten it with a calm and matter-of-fact humor...
When the 81st Congress adjourned last week, its action on the Administration's domestic policies consisted mainly of nine and a half months of party splits, filibusters, and witchhunts. President Truman put before Congress a long-range program of social legislation, and the lawmakers responded by devoting much of their time to headline prosecutions instead of their more serious legislative duties...
...large body of progressive legislation recommended in the State of the Union speech, Congress passed a housing slum clearance bill, extended rent controls, increased the minimum wage, and (on the last day) approved a farm subsidy bill. An expanded social security program and a federal aid to education bill are expected to be ready early in January. The rest of the Fair Deal proposals were ignored or talked to death; a few were honestly defeated...