Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Franklin Roosevelt makes a bold stroke, he likes to know how it will hit the U. S. Last week various unofficial feelers poked the U. S. in the ribs. Playing on its one theme, William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies crusaded up & down the land. In Chicago it held a mass meeting of 14,000 people, to whom Admiral William H. Standley (U. S. N. retired) declared: "We should throw more and more ships, air planes, munitions . . . into democracy's fight against Hitlerism." The White Com mittee, which pounded home...
...Charles Rufus Morey, Marquand professor of art and archeology, the deluge had already arrived. Said he: "Never in the history of civilized art has humanity cut so poor a figure. Whatever is base, whatever is open to derision, whatever is ugly in human existence, is made a major theme not only by the most significant fiction of our time but by its art as well...
Naturally the war in the principal theme, no less than four out of seven articles treating this theme directly, and all of them indirectly. Leo Marx '41 authors two: "Conscription. First Step Toward War," and "The Myth of Invasion." His thesis is unequivocal...
Many German propaganda post-cards are shown, including a special set of cards on the theme of "Gott Strafe England," with high-colored illustrations of zeppelin raids on England and representations of Germanic deities wreaking vengeance on the island kingdom...
...novel treatment and style, crisp and accurate enough to hold a lot of attention. "The Boy-Girl Relationship" naturally concerns just that. Only the boy never meets, or tries to get, or loses girl. His love, which is completely accidental, is a pleasant variation of an old Bella Spewack theme...