Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller McClintock, who received his Ph. D from Harvard two years ago, has been appointed director of this bureau and will have immediate supervision of its work. He is the best known street traffic expert in the United tates, and is the author of a standard work on traffic problems...
...Author Dobie "devoted his daily hours to insurance" until he was 35. Now, at 45, he has written a book most of which is as beautiful as the eyes of Adrienne, clear as the amber of her mother's eyes, rich as the "wine-dark sea" of her father's. The John Day Company (TIME, Sept. 20) has begun its publishing career with a brilliant novel...
...CASUARINA TREE-W. Somerset Maugham-Doran ($2). The title, of course, means nothing, although Author Maugham explains in a two-page preface that it might mean something. If one takes a piece of the Casuarina tree in a boat with him, contrary winds and storms will arise to jest with his life; but if one stands in its shadow by the light of the full moon, he will hear the secrets of the future. All of which ties a string around six short stories, wherein English folk drink gin pahits and have emotional disturbances in Borneo and the Malay Peninsula...
...smithy in postRevolution New England. The great branches flourish in Chicago where Peter's grandsons, dry Daniel and black Thane, have amassed fortunes by the opening of the pres-ent century. Today the Pardways are decayed and blown to the earth's ends; in their author's figure, the pillars of their temple have crumbled, the roof crashed. Their tragedy is that Daniel, who alone had increase, devoted more attention to the altitude of his pile than to the soundness of his breed...
...finance, dissolved by human degeneracy. It must be from the fact that its history is so baldly calculable, that the Pardway dynasty, broadly founded though it is for literary purposes, is composed of beings that are not very human. Daniel and Thane Pardway may have been human beings (their author says he drew them from originals) but in this book they are seen as animated cash-registers-Daniel in his big bargain-sale Loop department store; Thane as the bellicose Black Bear of the wheat pit-to the virtual exclusion of the minor traits and actions by which an individual...