Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking before the Club's forty-second annual convention in New Orleans last Saturday, the student chairman, Ralph H. Cutler, Jr. '40 found enthusiastic support and received pledges of financial assistance for the proposal which aims to promote peace and solidarity among Western nations...
...recent surge of nationalism has turned Hollywood's attention back to a uniquely American type of hero, the hairy-chested Western badman. But the chest of "The Oklahoma Kid" is sparsely covered with hair. In fact, the whole production has little muscle, little mind, small sense, and less sensibility. Cagney is thrown into a weak part to satisfy the ambitions of the directors to produce an "epic drama". All they achieve is a lot of noise, no subtlety, no poignancy, no emotional strength. "The Oklahoma Kid" is no epic,--just a second feature misplaced...
...President Roosevelt, by adopting a newspaper editorial as his own expression, explained and emphasized that his "we" meant Western civilization...
...horror campaign, screaming that Polish excesses toward Germans were "increasing in an alarming manner." In the village of Altdorf, said one report, "three Germans were beaten by Poles with clubs and wire whips and injured considerably because they spoke German." German divisions were moved up to Poland's western border. On their part, the Poles ordered Polish Nazis to take off their distinctive white socks, and moved new divisions into place opposite the German Army concentrations. In Danzig itself, newspapers reported that Adolf Hitler would be made an honorary citizen of the Free City on his birthday...
...Western culture must be carried-on by America after the next war," Bertrand Russell, world-renowned author and philosopher, said when interviewed last night. Russell, who addressed the Ford Hall Forum yesterday, predicted that the toll of another world war would be so great that "Europe will no longer count in civilization...