Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pamphlets (Brass Tacks, Uncommon Sense, Waste), of which he has sold over 1,000,000 copies, he proved himself a persuasive, new-fangled economist, but no Red. At present he works for the National Resources Board in Washington. Franklin Roosevelt has often espoused Coyle theories but met their author only once...
...Author Coyle is against both economizing in a small way and centralizing in a big way. On centralization, he says: "We should remember the mighty race of dinosaurs that thundered across the earth, with their vast bulk, armor-plated hides, long teeth and peanut brains. When the climate changed they had no ideas....The best we can hope is to have as little big business as possible, and to keep the disadvantages of bigness as small as possible...." So New Dealer Coyle favors Government regulation of bigness by yardsticks, taxes, control of money, discouragement of too much capital investment...
Greater novelists might well admire Rebecca's craftsmanship. Again & again the reader is led with seeming casualness to the edge of a precipice of suspense. A competent craftsman, Author du Maurier manages to make her readers hold their breaths for 457 pages...
...Author. Now eleven, David Statler wrote Roaring Guns when he was eight, sitting in the breakfast room of the Statler home at Memphis, Tenn. and printing out the story-illustrating it himself-in a five-cent composition book. Son of the Memphis manager of the Continental Can Co., David is now in the sixth grade, plays tennis, wants a typewriter, and leans heavily on Ritta, the Statler cook, for literary criticism and guidance. Working on his first novel, Author Statler sought inspiration between chapters in a way open to very few novelists: rushing out, side, playing cowboys and Indians with...
...match monopolies, his loans to governments totaling $400,000,000, that when he crudely forged $100,000,000 worth of Italian bonds, nobody examined them. When he committed suicide the Swedish Parliament assembled, the Bank for International Settlements met, the head of the Esthonian match monopoly killed himself, Author Marcosson, whose laudatory interview was appearing in the Satevepost, was thunderstruck...