Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Murray, radio director of the William Morris (theatrical) Agency, originally had a hard time getting on the air because sponsors considered it too bright for day time audiences. Now it moves along so briskly that sponsors are thinking of letting the general public gape while the Luncheons are in progress. Only outsiders permitted to join the pressmen and sponsors' pals who now attend the Luncheons are those who write in on very smart stationery. On no such stock was one of the letters Miss Chase received from a Midwest housewife, who wrote: "You and your mother must both reek...
...voting to refuse his resignation, thereby clearing his honor of any stain. At the same time they gained the cooperation of the Socialists in insisting that President Ortiz revise his Cabinet, last week forced his ministers to hand in their portfolios. By week's end their crablike progress had brought them to their goal. Ortiz handed over to Castillo authority to select a new Cabinet, which he promptly filled with six conservatives and only one nonconservative, a doff of the hat to the President...
...choice for Shirley Temple's 22nd feature-length film and final picture for Fox, where she was the nation's No. 1 box-office attraction for four years, an Oscar winner, the corporation's biggest single asset. The opening scenes of Young People, covering her progress from waif to world wonder, permit two shots from her earlier films when her wobbly dancing warmed the hearts of millions. Now & then she rasps out such reminiscent ditties as Young People...
Dusk of Dawn is the autobiography of a Negro whose lifelong attempt has been to ease friction between U. S. whites and blacks. In William E. Burghardt Du Bois's youth the faith of the nation was Progress. The faith of his college, the Harvard University of 1890, was Science and Truth...
...home town of Emancipator Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Ill., was the scene of race riots, a lynching. Du Bois lost faith in Science and Progress, dropped tiis research at Atlanta University for a new policy: Propaganda. He founded a crusading monthly, The Crisis, became an xecutive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, struggled no less against the submissive Negro philosophy of Booker T. Washington than against white prejudices...