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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This movie succeeds, even more effectively than other recent efforts such as the play "Deep are the Roots" or "Home of the Brave" in making the casual spectator think hard about the negro "problem." This is true mainly because the negroes it depicts as central characters are intelligent, sensitive, attractive people whose problems the audience does not hesitate to share. You will catch yourself wondering what you would do in a similar predicament...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...program's foreword states that "we have turned ourselves into performers today ... to show that our people basically have the same goals as you...we are here to tell you this, though loud and powerful voices which have been raised in our country may have caused you to think otherwise." It continues with a description of America repaying its cultural debt to the rest of the world with "arms and economic plans that cripple your industries"; the foreword conands of translations of the original text have cluded that "like you, we love fun, our people, and our land...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Youth Told of Grim U.S. at Budapest | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...also have their cases reviewed this session. Though the Court crossed the case of Gerhardt Eisler off its agenda in June, it must also do something about the "Number One U. S. Communist" who jumped bail while his appeal was pending. Justice Jackson commented in June, "don't think we can run away from this case just because Eisler...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

...which he condemns the Atlantic Pact (International Journal, April '49; see also "Correspondence" in the July number.) He steers difficult course quite honestly and openly. To the right wing he's a commie; to the commies he's a "social fascist," whatever that means. To me, and, I should think, to most people he would be a welcome addition to the American academic world. A. E. Mulloch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shortliffe | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

Geologists are now studying the region to attempt to predict when this increase should be expected. Some now think it will come within the next 30 to 50 years, Leet said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maine Quake Shows Future Trends -- Leet | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

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