Word: classed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...know that orders have been issued-preparatory to Hitler making a peace offer -to the Communists of the country to disturb meetings," said Minister Bevin. "I know very well that you have been instructed to try to create the impression that the working class of this country is disunited. You have started it-but I don't think it will work...
Last fortnight big Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor and strong man of the British trades-union movement, rushed to Scotland for a string of speeches against Communism. The working-class districts of Glasgow and Edinburgh are the noisiest in Britain, and there Orator Bevin was fiercely heckled by workers, who jumped up at his meetings and gave the Communist clenched-fist salute. In his roaring rebuttals Big Ernie went further than any other present British Cabinet member to speak his mind about Communism...
...National League were meeting for their annual ritual known as the draft. The draft is something the league's bigwigs thought up to prevent the richer clubs from snatching the best college talent. Each club in turn picks, one at a time, 20 college footballers of the graduating class. The club that finished last in the league picks first, the club that finished first picks last. (Whether the club will get the player it picks is another matter; none of the players on the list can be invited to turn pro until "preferred negotiation rights" to him have thus...
Santa Fe Trail (Warner) is one of those vast panoramas of an epoch on whose details Hollywood cameras love to dwell. It begins in 1854 with graduation ceremonies at West Point, shows Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis addressing the graduating class. Then it moves west, watches seven of the Class of 1854 patrolling the vast reaches of the frontier from their post at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Among the seven are George Custer (Ronald Reagan), Phil Sheridan, James Longstreet. George Pickett and J. E. B. Stuart (Enrol Flynn), a handsome lad from Virginia...
...Hessen-Nassau. He was drafted into the German Army during World War I, directed front-line theatricals. During the post-war social crisis he became a leading German radical impresario, a theatre figure almost as big as Max Reinhardt. He produced great plays frankly as propaganda, stressed all possible class-war angles, emphasized mass effects rather than individual actors. Determined to get his audiences "into" the plays, he abolished the curtain, had actors play in the aisles, loudspeakers sound from all parts of the house. His theatre became a versatile expressive "machine," blending plays, films, radio...