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...Holyoke Bookshop, which has a natural concern with its own financial problems, is surprised to find this interest shared by Councilor Sullivan and the CRIMSON to the extent of three news stories in a single week. The imaging the accounts of red nests and Moscow gold and police visits (no such police visit as the CRIMSON describes over occurred) are amusing, do doubt, but our laughter becomes a little wry when we see how this complements on a potty local scale the attempts of the Dies Committee to frighten liberals and progressives into inactivity and silence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...baiting a la Dies," claimed proprietors of the Holyoke Bookshop in a sharp denial of charges made yesterday by City Councilor Mickey (The Dude) Sullivan to the effect that the 19 Dunster Street establishment is a red nest" and merely a "sham" through which Communist propaganda is being distributed to "unsuspecting students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED CHARGES DENIED BY HOLYOKE BOOKSHOP | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

...students can now use more specific ratings of their professors. Last week undergraduates on California's Berkeley campus thumbed a handy guide to their faculty. The booklet, called Guide to Courses, was compiled by an anonymous group of students, sold for 10? a copy by a leftist campus bookshop. Candid, irreverent but informative, the Guide to Courses quickly sold 515 copies. Sample ratings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pipes and Old Jokes | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...hero and dictator, but not Danzig. There the Nazi Senate prohibited any ceremonies on the ground that in the present tension they could not guarantee order. Polish retort was that since the Germans could not keep order, the Polish Army should move in and do it. When a Polish bookshop proprietor displayed the old Marshal's picture his windows were smashed. Nazi police conveniently arrived too late to arrest the vandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Friends & Foes | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...most directions without traveling through armies, or in northern France and Belgium through heaped wreckage and broken walls. Revolutions threatened and populations starved. Joyce in Paris was close to starving too. But help came to him from U. S. and English expatriates. American Poet Robert McAlmon lent him money, Bookshop Owner Sylvia Beach began publishing Ulysses. Ezra. Pound, Idaho's great expatriate, introduced him to Harriet Weaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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