Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth French liner to be destroyed by fire in seven years. While the Sûreté Nationale appealed for the author of the anonymous note to come forward, Mobile Guards were put on the big Normandie, just ready to leave dry dock near by. The masts had to be sawed off the Paris before the Normandie could be taken out to her dock. This week, while the Paris' passengers (and also Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and two sons) were on the way to the U. S. on the Champlain the Sûreté had another mystery dumped...
Visitors to San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair last week: Artist Rockwell Kent, Author Damon Runyon, Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde. Said she: "I'm not sure I want to look at the World of Tomorrow, considering some phases of the world of today." Pre-visitor to the New York World's Fair: Cinemactor George Arliss...
...Author. Wiry, soft-voiced, 39-year-old Cecil Scott Forester has written more than 20 books, took 15 years to find the public's range. Born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of a British civil servant, he first took to writing (verse) when he was a medical student at Guy's Hospital, London. His interest in the sea began on trips between Egypt and England during his boyhood, on one of which he was wrecked off Malaga. Between the ages of 23 and 26, while writing ads, peddling verse and carpets, he wrote several novels and biographies, prefers...
...called it, the Second American Revolution, Thad Stevens was its leading Jacobin. Much attention has been focused on his thorny character, little on his role in history. The Northern beneficiaries of his Reconstruction ruthlessness have guillotined him with forgetfulness. In the sense that any interest in Stevens is new, Author Alphonse Miller contributes a useful biography, benefits largely by the sweep of the historical and political drama...
Synonym for royalty's sins and sufferings in the French Revolution has long been meddlesome Marie Antoinette. But it was her gluttonous, well-meaning husband, Louis XVI-to his courtiers "that great hog"-whose consistent blunders, according to Author Padover, mark the consistent advances of the Revolution, and make him the king-cog of the revolutionary turnover. Much new archive material documents this competent appraisal of an unheroic fat man trying to keep his head in a high historical wind. Inescapable is the conclusion that the bolshevik bourgeois and proletarians of 1793 "liquidated" the one French king...