Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clarence W. Barron, financier, philanthropist, editor, author, philosopher and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, the Boston News Bureau, the Philadelphia News Bureau and Barron's, the National Financial Weekly, is authority for the foregoing statements and certainly there is no man in the United States today better qualified to talk. ... It also might be stated without fear of contradiction that Mr. Barron is one of the most difficult men in Palm Beach to catch for an interview. . . . However, when he was cornered-the word is well chosen-in his sunny apartment in Whitehall overlooking Lake Worth yesterday morning...
Married. Adela Rogers St. John, author (Free Soul, Skyrocket) and scenario writer, of Santa Barbara, Calif.; to Richard ("Dick") Hyland, famed Stanford University football player...
...written by Author Powys, the story of Hudson's voyages-these two to the U. S. and two earlier ones to the north of Europe-is an intimate and elaborate chronicle. All the familiar details of life that precede and accompany the gaudiest adventures, like the supplies with which a captain fills the hold of his ship before a long voyage, are carefully inserted by Author Powys. He tells how an Indian visited the Half-Moon above Manhattan, how the Indian stole a shirt out of the mate's cabin, and how the mate shot him dead...
...Author is 44 years old, the son of an English vicar, the brother of John Cowper Powys, author and lecturer and T. F. Powys, novel-writer, a graduate of Cambridge. In 1909, afflicted with tuberculosis, he went to a Swiss sanatorium, an experience about which he later wrote a book. In 1914, still diseased, he went to South Africa for five years: this visit supplied the material for Ebony & Ivory, Black Laughter. In 1920, he came to the U. S. without fame, wealth or a wife; in 1925, he left the U. S. with all three and lived in England...
Professor of sociology, the author recognizes one of America's "problems" in the itinerant Negro "with the don't keer spirit, go day, come day, God send Sunday." But he sees the sociological evil in a setting of romance, and suggests graphically, if a bit lengthily, that his black hero's vaguely discontented lack of ambition is somewhat atoned by the charm of his sudden optimism...