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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late is better than never. I am very glad to see at last that a serious American magazine expresses what we "liberated nations," people of central and eastern Europe, were thinking since two years...
...human generation" are stated as being held in the Church of England. The Report concludes: "We also recognize that both the views outlined above are held by members of the Church, as of the Commission, who fully accept the reality of our Lord's Incarnation, which is the central truth of the Christian faith...
Husband Added & Subtracted. In 1921 she joined the Communist Party. By 1924, when the Government ban on Communism forced her to go underground, she was a member of the Central Committee of the Rumanian Communists. On one of her underground visits to Switzerland she met and married Marcel Pauker, a Rumanian Communist engineer and journalist. Together they spent the late 1920s in the U.S., working for the Soviet trading agency Amtorg...
...swamps, and get shot at by the smallest percentage of hunters (only 14%). About 25% take the Mississippi Valley, where the heaviest concentration of gunners (almost half the nation's 2,000,000-odd duck hunters) wait for them. The heaviest duck traffic (33%) is found on the central flyway-over the Dakotas and Oklahoma to Texas...
Passion for Power. Frank Algernon Cowperwood, the central character of the trilogy, is a Chicago traction magnate and stock manipulator, an obnoxious example of greed, he is socially snubbed and politically hobbled during a reform movement. The Stoic depicts his attempts to muscle in on the underground transportation system of London -a move which is thwarted by his death. Cowperwood's career, as Dreiser editorializes on it, is an indictment of both the social environment which permits unlicensed power, and the compulsions (what he calls "chemisms") which drive men to seek power...