Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hunter and a gentleman, is aristocracy, and a good example of it. But to New Deal theoreticians, he is a specimen of a declining class. Ever since he arrived in Washington, New Dealers have buzzed with stories of U.S. labor's animosity toward him. Even gentle Poet Carl Sandburg, who could hardly find a harsh word to say about Jeff Davis in his volumes on Lincoln, let fly with a blistering attack on Lord Halifax...
...Shot Dawson seemed last week to be on the tips of a few tongues, although the most encyclopedic U.S. collectors-Alan Lomax of the U.S. Library of Congress, Chicago's Poet Carl Sandburg, Boston University Professor Horace Reynolds, Radio Singers Frank Luther and Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Mary Wheeler of Paducah, Ky., Ernest C. Krohn of St. Louis, Author Carl Carmer, "Daddy of the Blues" W. C. Handy-did not know it. Apparently it was never published. But Cincinnati rivermen remembered Hot Shot, so did Captain D. T. Wright of the Waterways Journal in St. Louis. Two Memphis experts...
General Electric of Germany is the sprawling Siemens concern, manufacturing all kinds of electrical equipment from huge hydro-electric plants to telephones. Head of the Siemens firms since 1919 has been the youngest son of their founder, tall, frank-faced Carl Friedrich von Siemens...
BRITISH LABOUR'S RISE TO POWER- Carl F. Brand- Stanford ($3.50). BEVIN AND Co.-Patricia Strauss-Putnam...
...Carl Brand's book (the 17th publication of the Hoover Library on War, Revolution, and Peace) answers an important question: Why did British labor stand solidly behind its Government while French labor was riddled with disloyalty? His answer: British labor held firmly for reform and against revolution in a 20-year struggle with the Communists, which Author Brand documents in great detail...