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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Upton Close (Josef Washington Hall), author & lecturer on the Orient: "One good isolationist Senator is worth more to Japan than a whole division of soldiers...
...until Roosevelt I entered the White House did Author Mahan come into the honors due a major prophet at home. In the Mahan works, Theodore Roosevelt found the perfect articulation of his Big Stick. Five years before the Spanish-American War, Alfred Mahan had preached that the U. S. should annex Hawaii and then defend it with a Big Navy. He declared that the Navy should not only follow but carry the U. S. dollar into world markets, that the U. S. like imperial Britain should take and govern backward peoples for their own good. A Big Navy he called...
...biggest low-cost house competition yet held. Each was planned to be within the reach of a family man earning $2,100 a year, yet each had two acres of ground and plenty of character. Explanation : sponsors were four fervent back-to-the-land organizations whose lucid publicist is Author George Weller of Homeland Foundation. For reducing cost factors which the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM found irreducible by the individual, they postulated cooperative buying of land by "homestead associations" of several families...
...Author of most of the Telegram's weather stories is a thin, sharp-featured little man named Harry Allen Smith.* Raised in Huntington, Ind., he quit school after the eighth grade to work as a proofreader on the local paper, rose to write funeral notices, sports, a column. Smith saw the U. S. as an itinerant reporter, worked five years for United Press as a feature writer, landed on the Telegram three years ago. He once began an interview with Cinemactress Simone Simon thus: "Your reporter walked straight up to her, without so much as a hello, and tickled...
...imply complete condemnation of Mr. Mason's book. Mr. Mason has written in a pleasing, colorful style, and on one point he is even superior to Millis as a creator of atmospheric background for the United States' imperialistic adventure. He avoids the harsh, extreme one-sidedness of the earlier author, who in general seems to have felt that our participation in the Cuban question was due entirely to Messrs. Hearst, Pulitzer, and Remington. Mr. Mason is more concerned with the legendary Americana that fills the period, and with the war as a colorful, populous picture, aside from its deep political...