Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Bantam, Tiny Tim of the streamliners (75 in. wheelbase), enters its third production year with a new Super 4 in two models: coupé & sedan, both convertibles. Prices: $399 to $449. Boast: "a revolutionary road-cling ride...
Sabotage (Republic) starts out right innocently as that folksy love story about the young airplane mechanic and the traveling show girl in the quietest little Mid-American village in Hollywood. But when it shows U. S. average citizens organized by some mysterious agency to wreck airplanes, spoil machines, plant bombs by night in factories where the bomb-planters make their living by day, then uncorks a Hollywood program of vigilantes and kangaroo courts for dealing with them, Sabotage begins to look like the well-timed opening gun in a campaign to shoot for the witch-hunter trade...
...closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most of them are just his sourer-faced neighbors. Whether they blow things up for Nazi gold or just for the heck of it remains as mysterious as where their bombs come from. With the help of three Spanish-American War cronies, World War veterans, other hastily mobilized vigilantes, the Major drags his suspects before a kangaroo court in the plane plant, makes them confess...
...poetry, the novels suggested a virtuoso's familiarity with English, French and Oriental literature; in places this familiarity became obtrusive, as in one chapter ending of The Asiatics which echoed (beautifully) a paragraph from Baudelaire's Intimate Journals. What would be the result if this young American, born in Wisconsin and educated at Haverford and Yale, turned his imagination to his own country...
...issue, of course, has been furnished in Europe. Never more unanimous was any group of students on any single issue; we are frankly determined to have peace at any price. We refuse to fight another balance of power war. We intend to resist to the utmost any suggestions that American intervention is necessary to "save civilization" or even to "save democracy and freedom". The newly formed American Independence League promises to express this determination in a constructive and vigorous fashion...