Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concretely, P. I.'s interpretation of "the advertiser system" has meant consistent advocacy of higher wages as a means of maintaining purchasing power. Most enthusiastic proponent of this view is tall, alert Clinton Roy Dickinson, president of Printers' Ink Publishing Co., Inc., author of two books and numerous short stories. In 1921 Author Dickinson served as a member of the unemployment conference called by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, was the lone supporter of the late A. F. of L. President Samuel Gompers in a minority report opposing wage reductions. Publisher Dickinson believes he would not be alone...
...subtlest performer for Hill & Knowlton was George Ephraim Sokolsky, author, lecturer, industrial consultant. Some of Mr. Sokolsky's lecturing was done at "civic progress meetings" arranged and paid for by local employers but publicly sponsored by "neutral" groups. Since his return seven years ago from a varied journalistic career in the Far East, able, intelligent Publicist Sokolsky has become a one-man intellectual front for conservative capital. His principal outlets are a weekly syndicated column which appears on the editorial page of the Republican New York Herald Tribune and a weekly radio program sponsored by the National Association...
Died. Owen Wister, 78, prolific author, grandson of the late great Victorian Actress Fanny Kemble, friend and biographer of Roosevelt I; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in North Kingstown, R. I. His most famed novel The Virginian (1902), was the product of a western rest cure, sold 1,500,000 copies, gave birth to the phrase: "When you call me that, smile...
...Midnight on the Desert, an account of his stay in Arizona in 1936, Author Priestley presented one of the most excited and semi-mystical rhapsodies on that section that has appeared since English writers, with strange literary consequences, started wintering in the U. S. Southwest. Even the boldest guess could not have anticipated the strange desert influence that breathes from The Doomsday Men- a lively mixture of adventure, mystery and improbabilities, free of literary significance but heavily weighted with a moral regarding the curse of social pessimism...
...actions at the time of the killing. The mystery is literary because its solution depends largely on a critical analysis of a piece of writing: a sensitive detective finds revealing insincerity in a piece of prose which might well get by a professional critic. With this tour de force, Author Lewis hurries his story to a conclusion as surprising as the fact that a poet wrote...