Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Wiseman "head of the British Secret Service in the U. S., the chief British spy in America, now associated with Otto Hermann Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [New York bankers] was the author of an amazing secret document sent to David Lloyd George after the War. The document was saturated with hostility toward the U. S. and proposed a 'United States of Europe,' " asserted Shearer...
...Significance. Nearly every action of Carry Nation's career provoked in the public mind a lurid distortion of the saloon of her times. She was one of Prohibition's prime instigators. Author Asbury has done her the justice of weighty, lively, analysis...
...Author. Herbert Asbury, 38, Missouri-born, is a descendant of Bishop Francis Asbury whose biography he has written, who founded the Methodist Church in the U. S. Author Asbury's own deflection from the faith of his ancestors is expressed in the title of another Asbury book: Up from Methodism. His father and five uncles served in the Civil War, himself in the World War. As a Georgian newsgatherer in 1914, he helped pass child labor laws. His study The Gangs of New York has been praised by gangsters themselves. He edited The Bon Vivant's Companion...
...Story. The author's father, who was estranged from her grandfather, was a great athlete and a Colonel of the Blues. Once he jumped a horse over a glittering banquet table and never stirred a saucer. Once he rode a bull around a ring in Spain. Upon the death of her grandfather, Viscount Maynard, the author's newly widowed mother went to hear the will read. Surprisingly, Frances was named the heiress. The other relatives present slung pats of butter at grandfather's portrait...
...Institute is to be under the leadership of Professor Josef Redlich. Minister of Finance under the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Government, one-time Professor Public Law at the University of Vienna, and now Fairchild Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Harvard Law School. Professor Redlich is the author of "Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria" one of the more discussed historical biographies of last winter...