Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a hush in the upper chamber as Senator William Cabell Bruce, Democrat, of Maryland, rose to speak. Only Vice President Dawes and Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, who was author and co-author of such controversial measures as the 18th Amendment and the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, were present to listen to him. His words, however, were not hushed;* they were put into the Congressional Record and spread about by the press of the land; and that is what Senator Bruce wanted...
...long column of the New York Times last week. And who could the speaker be, when one of the ablest Senators from the South was merely the other? The speaker was the head of the English Department of Vanderbilt University ?Dr. Edwin Mims by name. He is the author of a book* which raised a controversy. In his speech last week before the Southern Society in Manhattan, he reiterated his side of that controversy. It is now time, he said, to cease talking about Southern chivalry, hospitality, traditions. . . . The South has used the Civil War to explain too many...
...UNDERSTANDING HEART? Peter B. Kyne?Cosmopolitan ($2)* In that magazine-story paradise, the California redwood forests, where the sheriffs have hearts of gold, the women shoot like the late Annie Oakley and the manly forest rangers croon Kipling, Author Kyne sets another of his soul-satisfying yarns...
...probity of open-space fiction today is truly magnificent. Author Kyne clearly states that this book's supply of moonshine, necessary for comic relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...
...reading will be held in the Main Dining Room of the Union. The subject of Professor Copeland's reading will be "Old Favorites and New," and will contain selections from the works of such writers as Thackeray, Kipling, Robert Benchley '12, and Donald Ogden Stewart, the author of "Perfect Behavior...