Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public works and national defense. Finally, the President dangled a figure left out of his regular columns. If the Drought's aftermath was as bad as anticipated, or if private industry failed to take enough men off relief rolls, he warned, he might have to ask Congress to add an extra $500,000,000 for relief to his total figure...
...number of other distinctions Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette can add that of being one of the most rapidly-translated novelists in literature. In the past seven years 15 of her French novels have been published in the U. S., and at one period in 1931-32 translations of them appeared almost every other month. That the reserve of untranslated Colette novels was rapidly being exhausted, many an enthusiast realized with regret last week when the latest item in this Frenchwoman's list appeared...
Concerning your article on Pledge Brown (TIME, July 20), may I add my bit to this collection of Browniana...
...Jewish world. He became king of Judea principally through the intrigues of his father, Antipater, who had been active in fomenting civil war in Palestine in the hope of securing Roman intervention. At that time Pompey, on a triumphal march from Armenia back to Rome, stopped to add to his laurels by putting Judea under Roman domination, left Antipater the real power behind a dummy king. Herod was thus always the representative of Rome in a remote and hostile country, first won recognition when he cleaned out rebellious patriots and bandits in Galilee, opened the trade routes that were closed...
Lonely, fearing he was the only one of his kind on earth, John went off to the Scottish Highlands to think things over. There he learned to live like a savage, learned also how to add a cubit to his spiritual stature. When he came back to civilization he was able to communicate telepathically with other superior human beings like himself. Most of the older ones were in insane asylums. But gradually John collected a motley little band of superior children, took them off to an uncharted Pacific island to found a real civilization. Before they could do much...