Word: alvah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BATTLE-Alvah Bessie-Scrib...
...directors of the plan include: Economist Alvah Eugene Staley of Tufts Col lege; Manager Daniel Bloomfield of the Boston Chamber of Commerce Retail Trade board; Secretary J. Arthur Moriarty of the Boston Typographical Union; New England Wage & Hour Administrator Thomas H. Eliot. Medical directors (headed by Dr. Cabot) do not belong to Health Service, but are banded into a brother corporation called Medical and Surgical Associates. This group will ex amine and appoint about 100 doctors to serve subscribers; Health Service, Inc. will pay them...
...commanders, Rolfe writes hardly ever as an individual but as the chosen chronicler of a group. His book is thus an official history, clearly and decently told but subject to the narrowness and reticence of its kind, supplementing and to be supplemented by such a vivid personal history as Alvah Bessie's (TIME...
...BATTLE-Alvah Bessie-Scrib...
...finest book that came out of the Spanish War was Andre Malraux's Man's Hope (TIME, Nov. 7). Alvah Bessie's book is not only the second finest; it is an addendum. Malraux's fictional account of the war ended with the Loyalist victory at Brihuega in March 1937. Bessie's personal story of eight months in the Lincoln Battalion begins in February 1938, six weeks before the battalion was cut to pieces in the Fascist drive to the sea. The author, a gifted short story writer and ex-Guggenheim fellow, took part...