Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oakland, and wandered along sidewalks until he found a car with the ignition key in the lock. He got in, drove away, stole a different set of license plates and put them on the stolen car. Then he drove to the South Berkeley branch of the Bank of America...
...mysterious author B. Traven, the secret of whose identity had baffled a generation of admirers-including his publishers. Traven's books-sea, stories and Mexican adventure novels laced with bitter comments on the futility of modern man-have had a tremendous following in Latin America and in Europe. In the U.S. he was virtually unknown until his Treasure of the Sierra Madre was made into a splendid movie...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick came back from his flying tour of Europe feeling, in some ways, better. "I think America is four times as important as I thought before I left," said he. "It is ten times as important as the average man thinks, and 100 times as important as the average New Yorker thinks." As for Laborite England, said he, "an international crowd of social climbers have control...
Died. Francis Butler Loomis, 87, turn-of-the-century U.S. diplomat, in Burlingame, Calif. As Minister to Venezuela, he played a major part in opening up Latin America to U.S. trade; later, as Acting Secretary of State, he negotiated the acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone...
Alienated from their religious tradition, from the America of the immigrants' illusion, and painfully disabused about each other, the characters of his stories seem brought to bay in the great supercivilized bewilderment of New York City. Often they are presented in a dimension of depth, two or three generations rapidly telescoping into one terrifying puzzle of defeated hopes, rancor and self-ignorance. The types recur: the intense, ambitious, unimaginative older son who is the pride of the family and the one whom death cuts down; the hardworking, kind elder sister; the young girl, liberated and "radical"; the pampered...