Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed signatures made it white-hot news. Fearful of lagging behind, the great news agencies tarried not to investigate but broadcast this roundest of round robins as fast as cable relays could click. Local editors in every capital hastily picked a financier of foreign nationality as the documents' author. British editors picked signatory Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank. Germans favored signatory Montagu Norman,*** Governor of the Bank of England. Frenchmen were sure that signatory John Pierpont Morgan was at the bottom of the woodpile...
...duty of those who have education on their minds as well as in their hearts is to find a method by which the doctorate may be in the truest sense humanized. Such humanization, like all else of a remedial nature, must, however, come from within. Neither the author of "The Plastic Age" nor a writer for "Liberty" can produce the panacea. They have not the background, dull and dry though it most certainly...
...Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett has led an industrious, unspectacular life since being born 59 years ago among the potteries of Staffordshire. Everything interests him, especially humble, "uninteresting" people. His published books and plays, persistently captivating, now number over two score. He has a French wife, steam yacht...
Franz Werfel, author of the Goat Song (TIME, Feb. 8), sees in Maximilian the representative of a humane, idealistic principle of government. He would, with kindness, mold superstitious peasants, renegades into a nation. Napoleonic ruthlessness he forbids. Opposed to him looms the sinister Juarez, man of implacable power, one who "has never had a dream." The native leader, never brought upon the stage, is constantly felt to be the spirit that directs deadly forces against the wavering royalist's policy. Betrayed, deserted, defeated by himself, Maximilian goes to his doom, a failure in living for his cause, but strong...
...built beside buffalo wallows. Beneath the burden runs a hysterically bitter ground-bass-a dirge for everything Puritan-and snarling discords to the effect that constipation was the pioneers' curse; that their children were rickety, their politics poltroonish, their women spavined, their teeth acid, their minds (including the author's) stunted and deranged, all because they failed to raise cabbages and take lime into their systems...