Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blackmer's name. Mr. Blackmer's attorney promised to fight the U. S. for return of this price of silence by testing the constitutionality of the so-called Walsh Law under which the confiscation was made. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, the law's author, and one of the originators of the whole oil investigation, declared he was sure his law would withstand Supreme Court scrutiny; announced his intention of introducing to Congress another law, to compel just such reluctant witnesses as Mr. Blackmer* to testify willy-nilly- when they can be caught before they leave...
...Significance. The author has chosen a most unlikely plot for his novel and accomplished a truly rare job. It is an important piece of literature, imaginative, logical, incisive, poetry translated to prose, conceivably executed by a Joyce gone sane. Dundee was simply a less-than-average sort of fellow who wished for more-than-average success; the stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity...
...destroyed. In writing about them, it is hard to make them merely human; some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined not by a historian but by a novelist. Author Kostolanyi, a Hungarian who writes in German, well translated by Clifton P. Fadiman, makes him a weak man, a pathetic youth unable to learn how to live, "a bad poet and a bad ruler." Whether this is what Nero was in truth, no man can say. But his character...
...Author. Manuel Komroff was born 37 years ago in New York City. He received his college education at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, did post-graduate work at Yale in music and art. After serving as art critic for New York newspapers and as a writer of special articles, he traveled extensively through the Far East, contributing to the Chinese and Japanese press. Married, he lives in Manhattan. Two years ago he published The Grace of Lambs, a collection of short stories which was widely acclaimed. Juggler's Kiss is his first full-length novel...
...profession and soon became president of the Evening Post. Selling out his interests in this paper in 1918, he founded in that year the New York Nation, which he nows owns and edits. Mr. Villard is also the owner of the Nautical Gazette, of New York, and the author of various historical and political books...