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...term for Roosevelt's ideals." Josh Lee, the junior Senator from Oklahoma, caused pandemonium by yelling: "Now is the time to unleash the devil dogs of democracy and set them baying on the trail of the Wolf of Wall Street! America, now is the time to unsheathe the sword of human rights! Now is the time to raise the banner of Roosevelt...
...PEACE BUT A SWORD-Vincent Sheean-Doubleday, Doran...
...that he was "no longer a newspaper man." But Ex-Reporter Sheean made an even better living by writing slick-paper magazine stories, historical novels with up-to-date political implications, touring the U. S. lecture circuit. Last year he turned to personalized history again. Not Peace but a Sword, his firsthand account of that disastrous twelvemonth for the democracies, March 1938-March 1939, shows that he is as brilliant, as partisan a reporter as ever...
...Iron Mask (United Artists-Edward Small) is a sword-rattling, Dumascene version of one of the wildest stabs ever made at history by that extravagant Romancer Alexander Dumas. Its hypothesis: that when Louis XIII's good Queen Anne was brought to bed in 1638, she gave birth to twins. Because dynastically two heirs would have been worse than none, the King reared one son as the future Louis XIV, palmed off the other as the son of his loyal Gascon guard, d'Artagnan (Warren William...
Though 61-year-old Lionel Barrymore makes expert use of his wheel chair, a prop dear to a character actor as sword & cloak to a romantic hero, in scene-stealing honors 8-year-old Bobs Watson comes off best. Youngest son of an oldtime actor who has four other children in the movies Cinemactor Watson has appeared in 29 pictures, now earns about $800 a week He got the role of Pud after its Broadway incumbent, 8-year-old Peter Holden, was judged too mature for the part. Swamped by autograph seekers at the preview of On Borrowed Time...