Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 500 authors and publicists. Last fortnight the Democrats announced an Authors' Committee of 149 names, including Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author...
Ludwig Lewisohn, Jewish author who has suffered from Christian ostracism, recommends in his new book, Midchannel, that states invest rabbis with full legal powers in affairs affecting Jews, especially concerning marriage and divorce. Several European countries have such autonomous courts. Manhattan has an extra-legal one whose chief function has become the smoothing of disputes between Jewish manufacturers and tradesmen...
This Thing Called Love. The author, Edwin Burke, believes that love "is the monkey wrench which life has thrown into the machinery of marriage." Perhaps, in the beginning, he wanted to deal with the thing seriously. But, with his gate in mind, he shambles into farce, ends with a drunken and melodramatic pistol shot...
Hearing the above quoted unequivocal, politico-religious dicta, a militant partisan or a non-partisan might seek their source. He would find these statements in The Presbyterian Magazine. He would find that the author of the pronouncements is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, who, as moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.* occupies Presbyterianism's highest eminence...
...Sweezy '29 and R. A. Stout '29, editors of the booklet, announced that all the type had been preserved and that plans for a revised edition were being considered. New binding was being considered, several new pictures, and minor changes suggested by M. A. De Wolfe Howe '88, noted author, and J. F. Merrill '89, editor of The Harvard Alumni Bulletin. The booklet has attracted international attention, and is being translated into foreign languages...