Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hunt for a Villain. In Washington, a Senate committee was shrilly trying to find out why. ODT's J. Monroe Johnson led off by accusing 1) CPA, for not allocating enough steel for cars and 2) the railroads, for not ordering enough cars. With the U.S. in immediate need of 100,000 freight cars, railroads have so far placed orders for only 78,000. What the railroads should do, said Johnson, was order at least 250,000. That would make it worthwhile for car companies to set up mass production lines...
...Villain Found? Some railroad men laid the blame to lack of steel. Only 48,000 tons of steel a month, said they, were allocated for freight cars in 1946 under CPA's "voluntary set-aside" policy. It would take 180,000 tons to turn out the needed monthly minimum of 10,000 cars. The automakers, they cried, were getting far more than their share of steel, while railroads were getting the same percentage (9%) that they got during the war. Snapped Railway Age: "Of all the tremendous tonnage of steel freed for civilian use when war production ceased...
...energetic Technicolored western about the 1848 gold rush. It should cause no particular pain to anyone, except possibly historians. Ray Milland is the sullen, unshaven hero. Barbara Stanwyck the hussy-with-heart-of-gold, Barry Fitzgerald the lovable old grape-growing philosopher, and George Coulouris the fine, fascist-minded villain...
...Capra and Stewart couldn't have made "It a Wonderful Life" by themselves. It takes quite a supporting cast to seem good in the face of a performance as awesomely fine as Stewart's, but Donna Reed, Henry Travers, and Lionel Barrymore do so throughout. Barrymore, incidentally, is the villain of the piece, a senile banker who lives only to make everybody, especially Stewart, miserable. The plot of the picture consists of Stewart's battle to keep him from succeeding...
Gargoyles & Gladiators. With the coal strike, John L. Lewis, the Great Gargoyle, bid vigorously for Villain of the Year, but Lewis came in second. Theodore Bilbo had been exposed to national view for 20 years, but not until 1946 did the U.S. really savor the fulsome putrescence of Bilbo's bigotry...