Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard him as a man and a maker of policies, he has given one shock after another, upsetting all attempts to identify him. In spring 1933 (banking crisis) they labeled him Man of the Hour. In summer 1933 (Economy Act, NRA) they relabeled him Man of Recovery. In autumn and winter 1933-34 (dollar devaluation; spending program) they relabeled him Man of Experiment. In the spring of 1934 (banking reforms; Brain Trust ascendancy) they relabeled him Man of Reform. Finally they began to record "swings to the right," "swings to the left" until many a weary observer gave up, declared...
Last year Theodore L. Moritz was trained in the school of political circus master: he was secretary to Mayor McNair of Pittsburgh. Last autumn he got his diploma in clowning: Pittsburgh elected him to Congress. Last week connoisseurs, who expected much of his political antics, discovered to their surprise that the first bill introduced by Mr. Moritz contained the seeds of great good sense...
...Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente. In the French Chamber of Deputies last autumn Military Budget Rapporteur Archimbaud blabbed: "The Russian Army . . . has been offered to us in the event of war with Germany...
Whether the Black Hawks maintain their championship form is a problem of many factors. In the same trade which brought them Chabot last autumn they acquired the fastest forward in the world, famed Howie Morenz. So far, he has been of great assistance but his legs, after twelve years of professional hockey, are weakening. A new defenseman, Alex Levinsky, one of the two Jewish players in big-league hockey, joined the team three weeks ago to bolster the defense but the Black Hawks are still shaky when their forwards grow tired. Manager Tommy Gorman who helped them win the Stanley...
...unsuspecting reader is treated to actual state papers, speeches, documents. Vinogradov may have been the first historical novelist to make extensive use of this method, but Guy Endore. U. S. novelist, employed the same technique in Babouk, his novel of a West Indian Negro. published by Vanguard Press last autumn. LEAN MEN- Ralph Bates- Macmillan ($2.50). In Barcelona during recent Spanish revolution, the proletariat fights the monarchy and visits the music halls while Francis Charing is involved with three women. Adventure moves from city streets to mountain passes...