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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three grownups will agree on a list of children's classics. But most grownups who liked to read when they were children can enjoy such a list as was published last week. Peter Parley to Penrod (edited by Jacob Blanck, R. R. Bowker Co., $4.50), the joint selection of an authority on first editions and leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Loved Juveniles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Article 48 of section 2 of the State Constitution states clearly that initiative and referendum petitions do not apply to the appointment, qualification, tenure and removal of judges, but yet Mr. Curley feels that by subterfuge or bluffing he can circumvent this restriction. As Representative Bowker of Brookline said yesterday, "The use of the threat to do this if you don't is old stuff with the Governor and I hope that this specific case where he has made his bed and refuses to lie in it will make some people realize what kind of a man we have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AN EYE FOR AN EYE..." | 5/20/1936 | See Source »

Died. Richard Rogers Bowker, 85, publisher, author, retired utilitarian; at his home near Stockbridge, Mass. Indefatigable in 19th Century politics, he founded the ''Mugwump'' Party (first called the ''Young Scratchers") which swung the 1880 Republican convention to Garfield. He founded the American Library Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

Richard Hiller Amberg, Robert Hicks Bates, Henry Hamilton Bissell, Richard Adolph Bloomfield, Benjamin Cushing Bowker, Morton Clark Bradley, Jr., Leon Brooks, Winston Mansfield Burdett, Warren Leonard Claff, Samuel Louis Cohen, Louis Cooperstein, Samuel Duker, Maurice Francis English, John Lincoln Finan, Franklin Gay Folger, Oliver Garceau, Charles Clarke Glavin, Edwin Paul Gordon, Henry Greenberg, John Dickson Hersey, Winfield Adelbert Huppuch, Elliott Samuel Hurwaitt, James Francis Kane, Jr., Alfred Kidder, 2d, Harlan Michael Levin, James Marcellus Lichliter, Edmund Lieberman, Robert Baddow Lisle, John Hamilton McCallum, William Alexander McGivney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Gives 2148 Degrees Today, Smith Among Those on Honorary List | 6/22/1933 | See Source »

...fast from first line to last. And the Stagers do their hit for the glory of the celestial due. Francis G. Cleveland as Blanco mixes subtle perception and incipient delirium tremens in just the right proportions. Philip Bourneuf does a masterly job of hypocritical piety as Elder Daniels. Aldrich Bowker, though erring occasionally on the side of the obvious, makes for the most part a delightfully comic sheriff. The rest of the cast, clear down to the twelfth member of the rough and ready jury, is eminently acceptable...

Author: By T. B. Oc., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/16/1933 | See Source »

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