Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Arthur Train, Manhattan author, creator of the Mr. Tutt series in the Satevepost; to be President of the Authors' League of America; in Manhattan...
Died. The Rev. Francis James Finn, 70, able Catholic educator & author of boys' books, of Cincinnati. Father Finn's works include Claude Lightfoot, Ethelred Preston, That Football Game, Sunshine and Freckles...
...Revolt. Author Harry Wagstaff Gribble (who wrote also that near masterpiece. March Hares) announces his theme as though he had himself discovered it. That the children of a fundamentalist preacher should become annoyed at their father's limitations is neither surprising nor interesting. Eventually the clergyman blows his brains out in an improbable manner...
Presiding at a debate was Prof. David Saville Muzzey, author of a U. S. history deemed pro-British and pernicious by "Big Bill" Thompson, and declared by him unfit for Chicago schools. Further his mayoral anglophobia would have been irritated by the fact that three of the debaters were British students...
...that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These contemplations were rudely interrupted by Harold reported killed and Edie marrying disillusioned "brother Jonathan," that she might honorably bear Harold's child. Harold's unexpected reappearance so confuses the situation that nothing is left for the author but to let Jonathan fall ill and die, clinging to the hand of Rachel...