Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young man Mark Sullivan was vastly impressed by the late Harry Thurston Peck's brilliant history of the contemporary U. S., Twenty Years of the Republic (1885-1905). Years later after seeing many a U. S. political event from the inside, Journalist Sullivan began to read accounts of some of them and say to himself, "That was not the way it happened." History, he concluded, can never be rightly written from documents alone. Too much happens behind the scenes, too much is decided by a passing word or nod of the head, too many varying accounts are put forward...
...parlo francese." "In quanam diocesi es archiepiscopus?" "Sum patriarca Venetiae." "Non liqueris gallice? Ergo non es papabilis, siquidem papa debet gallice liqui." "Verum est, Eminentissime Domine. Non sum papabilis. Deo Gratias." The Patriarch of Venice, who spoke no French but in Latin thanked his God that on that account he was not eligible to become Pope (papabile), was Giuseppe Sarto. Few days later he was chosen Pope, taking the name Pius X. Theologically Pius X's greatest work was his encyclical Pascendi which demolished the then dangerous Catholic movement toward Modernism. Vainly attempting to stave...
...East, den Doolard mentions his months of wandering through Macedonia, "sometimes thirsty and penniless and dirty, sometimes drinking iced plum brandy in the luxurious restaurant wagon of the Orient Express," hints that he has taken part in the activity of the organization he describes. Noting his detailed account of conspiratorial methods, it is a likely conclusion that den Doolard did not get his knowledge of them exclusively from books. The story revolves around Milja Drangov, slender, striking, brown-eyed daughter of a famed leader of the movement for Macedonian independence. Her father was killed in a futile uprising against...
Married, father of two boys and two girls, Author Austin now lives on the Avenue Franco-Rasse in Paris, lists his preference in life as a full bank account, likes to travel, collect books...
SOME AMERICAN PEOPLE - Erskine Caldwell-McBride ($2). A collection of reports on conditions throughout the U. S.. including the grim account of starvation in Georgia that created a State scandal, led to an independent investigation that confirmed Author Caldwell's more extreme charges (TIME, March...