Trumbo
Americannoun
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“Spartacus” screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, blacklisted during the Red Scare, may have identified with the shrewd Thracian gladiator who led a slave revolt against the crushing overlords of the Roman Republic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
On the night of the election, I was with a veteran activist who told me a story about Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted writer.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025
"Previous observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show evidence for ocean-derived salt in Tara Regio," explained Trumbo.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023
The next day, the panel cited three more writers with contempt: Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie and Dalton Trumbo, writer of the 1944 film “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022
They had chosen my father and Colonel Trumbo as Utah's two Senators.
From Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by O'Higgins, Harvey Jerrold
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