Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange power Strange Cargo derives from the tact, restraint and experience of Director Frank Borzage, who made A Farewell to Arms. Part it derives from the fact that all the actors are as perfectly typed as Joan Crawford, who, under one guise or another, has been playing Sadie Thompson so long that the part is almost second nature. Like her, Hollywood has been making Devil's Island pictures so long it has almost perfected the formula. This perfect Hollywood formula is turned into a highly unusual picture by the surprising performance of Ian Hunter as the Christlike convict. Always...
GANG RULE IN NEW YORK-Craig Thompson and Allen Raymond-Dial Press...
...reaching her conclusions about the number of unemployed, Miss Thompson rather blithely neglects some "hard economic facts." She assumes that the population age distribution has remained constant since--1929; it hasn't, with the result that many more now enter the labor market annually than in Hoover days. She neglects the fact that the depression has caused many people of seek work who would otherwise stay at home -- women especially. She adopts a special estimate of unemployment in 1929, instead of taking the average of the accepted figures. And finally, she declines to consider W. P. A.'ers as unemployed...
...spending produced a wave of recovery, and that the Roosevelt recession came only when pump-priming was halted. For them to deny that public money has helped correct economic distress would be pointless self-castigation. Sullivan and Krock have only misunderstood, or misinterpreted, the New Deal protest at Miss Thompson's figures...
...suppression of the truth." It is not even necessarily prompted by a belief that the economy has hit a period of "secular stagnation," for which "collectivism" is the only solution. It is simply a caution that all is not yet right with the economic system, and that the deceptive Thompson figures should not lead us to cut public activity more rapidly than the business revival justifies. Nine million or two million, there are still enough unemployed around to make them a problem that demands vigorous federal action...