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...that a country intermittently rocked by violent political quarrels needs. Son of a rector of County Roscommon, Dr. Hyde's academic fame rests on his work for the revival of the Irish language as president of the Gaelic League, on his collections of Celtic folklore and on his authorship of Twisting of the Rope, first Gaelic play produced at Dublin's famed Abbey Theater...
...August 1929 Waddill Catchings was rated a brilliant economist and success, the former because of his co-authorship of The Road to Plenty, which predicted a perpetual upward spiral of prices & profits, the latter because as the self-made head of Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp.., he was a millionaire many times over and the floater of Wall Street's two most spectacular investment trusts, Shenandoah and Blue Ridge. When they collapsed with Depression, Waddill Catchings, by then a director of 29 corporations, left Goldman, Sachs, has since been associated with Millionaire Harrison Williams whose North American Co. with...
...TRANQUIL HEART - Catherine Carswell-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio, by his first female biographer, who emphasizes not only his authorship of the Decameron 600 years ago but his importance as a political figure...
...Certain was Tammany that it needed a potent vote-getter to win and who could be better than one of its own sons, Bob Wagner, son of a German janitor, brought up in Yorkville (Manhattan's East Side German district), beloved of Labor because lie is credited with authorship of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. But Senator Wagner, although he called politely at Tammany Hall, declined the honor. So Tammany finally staked its bets on a onetime Republican mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich., New York's other Senator, Royal S. Copeland...
...Stanley Baldwin or Ramsay MacDonald had written Marriage, they would never have got to be Prime Ministers. Because Leon Blum is a Frenchman, authorship of this plain-speaking sex treatise, although known to Frenchmen for nearly 30 years, did him no political harm, may indeed have increased confidence in his ability to give leadership to an important French institution. Now, however, with Marriage still selling like wildfire. Premier Blum wishes people would forget he ever wrote the book. The national tittering is beginning to get on his nerves. What Frenchmen titter at is the self-portrait of youthful Poet-Journalist...