Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schipa's Show. In Rome last week opened a musical comedy called Principessa Liana, with a love plot about a princess and a troubadour. The author-composer: Tenor Tito Schipa of the Chicago Opera Company. Success: immediate...
...more deeply than those who counterfeit the coin." Even had Standard paid the fine, it would have been a mere drop out of the Standard bucket. In 1911 the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Standard to "resolve into its original units, and restore free competition in the oil industry." Author Winkler suspects and says that Standard still functions as a unit...
...Significance. Neither as scholarly nor as impartial as his publishers believe, Author Winkler gives a very human, very rambling account. Moral, he writes: "[Graft] can scarcely be prevented when private citizens deliberately defy the moral and legal codes of organized society." He tries to stop as short of libel as of praise. Psychologically, his work is a study of the U. S. single-track mind engaged in the prime U. S. occupation?money-making. Historically, the work treats of a career coincident with the entire post-Civil War development of U. S. industry...
...Author. Born in Camden, S. C., John K. Winkler went to school in Manhattan. In 1908, aged 18, he got his first and only regular job, as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst, whom he seldom saw but about whom he was to do his most ambitious writing prior to this book in a series for The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, later bound as Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Author Winkler left the newsgathering business five years ago but still sleeps by day, works or plays by night. Closely related to a Baptist minister, it is perhaps through this connection that...
...Author Pettit is a sleek writer with a style naive and beguiling as his characters. He has a flair for provocative titles. His two previous books were called The Elegant Infidelities of Madame Li Pel Foil, The Son of the Grand Eunuch...