Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...overthrow of the Manchu dynasty by Sun Yat-sen in 1911, frail, U.S.-educated Dr. Yen served as a diplomat to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. He came out of retirement last year to head an unofficial four-man mission to Peking which tried unsuccessfully to make peace with the Communists...
...Pedigree. But the Bull of 1950 had an entirely different pedigree from the 1929 breed. This time there was no bobtail following of shoeshine boys, elevator operators and other shoestring speculators trying to make a killing with 90% of their stock bought on credit. Tightening-up of margins had ended that. Nor did the Bull of 1950 look like the 1946 animal, when the market was overrun with speculators, the easy-come, easy-go war rich and black-marketeers. This time the bull had fattened on the cash of those who bought for investment-security buyers who were less interested...
...Farge. Whatever the faith of the members of the national and state constitutional conventions, or of the various later legislators, they were representing people not all of whom were Christian. We must not forget for instance, the part that Jews played in developing the territory of New Mexico and making the state possible, nor the important and noble part they played in financing the revolution . . . "Consider the effects of such an interpretation within this state. Jewish chil dren and the children of some 50,000 Indians, most of whom still hold to their own religions, may then be subject...
...Jackie Robinson Story (Eagle-Lion) tells how the Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman struggled to make good as the first Negro to play openly in big-league baseball. It might have been a powerful movie stating the case for the U.S. Negro in terms that combined authenticity, drama and the irresistible appeal of an underdog's courageous fight to ultimate triumph. Fumbling, overtactful treatment has reduced it to considerably less. But the emotional potential of the film's raw material is so high that no ineptitude by the producers can keep the sparks entirely off the screen...
...first with Montreal and then with the Dodgers. Its arguments for tolerance and fair play, as spoken flourishingly by Actor Watson, are overwrought and sometimes speciously reasoned. Its footage is cluttered with sports announcers telling the audience things that the picture ought to show. The movie even fails to make its baseball scenes look convincing. The fact that the moviegoer can nevertheless salvage something stirring out of these muffed opportunities is a better tribute to Robinson and his struggle than any made by the film...