Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolution to give license to such effective criticism. Last week German invaders in Posen, Poland destroyed a twelve-foot statue of Woodrow Wilson, carved by Gutzon Borglum and presented to the city in 1931 by silver-maned Ignace Jan Paderewski. The critics left this sign on its site: "The American sculptor made the legs too short, the body too long and the head too large. Such an artistic eyesore cannot continue to stand in the city...
...Manhattan, Peter Sabbatino, counsel for Fritz Kuhn, on trial for stealing money from his German-American Bund, made a grandstand play by telling newspapermen he would like an all-Jewish jury. Said he with a straight face: "Jews have been persecuted for centuries; they know what persecution is and are tolerant." The jury: Gentiles 12, Jews...
...works. And in its working, it still turns out good times, good news, good people. . . . And so, Life, Liberty and most particularly the Pursuit of Happiness, of these we sing!" In the first few weeks: Ray Middleton sang Maxwell Anderson's How Can You Tell An American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze, announced that the local cider mill was open for business; Raymond Massey recited from Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Bob Benchley skitted through a shopping trip; Joe Cook imitated his three Hawaiians; Novelist Carl Carmer (The Hudson, Listen...
...social question: "What a proud vaunt it will be for the American people, by nature inclined to grandiose undertakings and to liberality, if they untie the knotty and difficult social question by following the sure paths illuminated by the light of the Gospel and thus lay the basis for a happier...
...play-a play about Jews which he and Edna Ferber have been turning over in their minds for the past five years. Then, distinctly as an afterthought, he maintains that he has written two serious plays already-Merrily We Roll Along, in 1934, and last season's The American...