Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government when the going was good. But the important point is not his polities, which are evidently reprehensible, but the question of whether the work of an artist can be considered separately from his polities. That question has been answered rather consistently by free societies in the past. The western world has taken into its culture the works of many artists whose politics were at least as vicious as those of Gieseking--Richard Wagner and Ezra Pound, to name two. If Gieseking has not been allowed to play for American audiences for political reasons, then the logical absurdity reasons, then...
...complaint charged other monopolistic practices: refusal by A.T. & T. to let outside manufacturers use alternative patents which Western Electric was not using; suppression of cheaper improvements that might cut A.T. & T.'s rate bases. Example: the hand telephone, developed in 1907, was not introduced as standard equipment until...
...corrective, the Justice Department demanded that Western Electric be: 1) divorced from A.T. & T. and split into three independent companies; and 2) required to license its patents to all applicants. There was no demand that A.T. & T. change its operating network...
...Gibraltar of the securities world, dropped 1½ points on the New York Stock Exchange to 147¾, a new low for 1948-49, fell still lower next day to the lowest point in five years. A.T. & T.'s President Leroy A. Wilson seemed less shaken. Said he: "Western Electric has been a part of the Bell System for over 65 years ... I am sure that when all the facts are known, the existing arrangement will be found to be in the public interest...
...River. Howard Hawks's rattling good western, with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME...