Word: versions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Chairman Dies, ill in Orange, Texas, turned in an initial report that one New Dealer called as vicious a document as he had ever seen. Hurriedly New Dealers Voorhis, et al. rushed into action, supplanted their own toned-down version...
Story was that, unless Chairman Dies agreed, a minority report would be issued that would make more difficult another appropriation from Congress to continue the Committee's work. Chairman Dies's secretary signed for him. Popular was the final version; general was the belief that the money would be forthcoming. But it was no triumph for Chairman Dies* (although Father Coughlin's Social Justice mentioned him for President), no triumph for Mr. Voorhis. If Chairman Dies could write no such report, neither could idealistic Mr. Voorhis battle through such an investigation. Triumph was for democratic government that...
...Henry strode ashore (in borrowed regalia) to wreathe Montevideo's monument to General José Artigas, hero of Uruguay's war for independence in 1814-20, and to give the press his version of the historic Battle of Punta del Este...
...tension. From the opening shot (before the title flashes) of George and Lennie escaping their pursuers by jumping a freight, until George shoots Lennie through the head to save him from a posse, there is scarcely a word, gesture or incident too much. More tender than the tough stage version, the impact of the picture is tough and raw enough...
...Daily Worker would probably fire its movie reviewer if he panned this latest version of Victor Hugo's famous "Hunchback of Notre Dame," for it is more a tidy moral essay on the people versus the crooked nobles than it is a horror story. But the Daily Worker would then be as aesthetically wrong as it was in firing "the renegade Rushmore" for liking that "fascist-slanted, anti-negro" epic "Gone With The Wind," for "The Hunchback" is a dull film...