Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority. Robert J. Thomas, C. I. O. headman in U. A. W. also left. Second-stringers on both sides continued to sit in vain with Conciliator James F. Dewey of the Labor Department, who continued to spend his non-conciliating evening hours in the Motor Bar of the Book-Cadillac Hotel...
Currently exciting comment in London is a provocative, 263-page book that analyzes the tangled family, social, economic and political relationships of Government supporters in the House of Commons. Called Tory M.P., believed the work of several contributors who write under the common pseudonym of "Simon Haxey, " it is an unobtrusive piece of political dynamite, abundantly proves its main point-that people like Lord Balniel are not exceptional among Conservative* members...
NEWSPAPER MAN of thirty-one years' experience is desirous of job. Has worked as reporter, copyreader, rewrite, book reviews, dramatic critic, war correspondent, sports writer, columnist and briefly as publisher. Of neat appearance, although labor agitator. Not sure of recommendation from present post. No reasonable offer will be refused. Address Mr. X., P. 0. Box 521, Stamford, Conn...
While descriptions of battles, complex campaigns, intrigues, finances are all top-drawer Pratt, clear and simple as the maps that dot the book, readers are apt later on to find such Prattlings as these tucked away in their mental bottom drawers...
Author Arlen, still a fashion plate at 43, is now in Greece with his wife, the Countess Atalanta Mercati, who is as beautiful as her name, and their two children. Nowadays his highest ambition is "to write a book which I can read after I'm fifty without nausea." The Flying Dutchman, pure Arlenquinade...