Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York daily press were Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Chiang Kaishek. The Chinese Premier & Generalissimo was holding out at Nanking, his frequently bombed capital (see p. 22). and the diary which Mme Chiang began cabling to Manhattan's Herald Tribune last week was in a different class from Mrs. Roosevelt's description of such events as how last week a baby bear reared up on its hind legs and might have scratched the side of the President's car had it not moved on (see p. 15). Excerpts from Mme Chiang...
...that the Japanese Government would not pay a brass farthing in indemnity for the machine-gunning of British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugessen (TIME, Sept. 6), the British Government did not ask any money. This was "manifestly unfair" to good old "Snatch," his many ruling class friends have been influentially murmuring in London ever since, but an old imperial precedent is in favor of the foreign nation which is to blame always paying the indemnity. For example the assassination in Egypt of Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack cost Egyptians exactly $2,300,000 (TIME...
...marry pretty Mildred Riddle, a fellow teacher in Yakima whom he had often taken picnicking in an antique automobile. When they reached Manhattan they had precisely 35?. This time, however, he knew the ropes and all was clear sailing. Working on the side, he finished Columbia second in his class and editor of its Law Review in 1925, easily landed a job with the crack Wall Street law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood. Planning to return to Yakima in two years, he set to work learning the fascinating intricacies of Wall Street finance and law, meanwhile teaching...
Representing the contemporary U. S. scene are William Corcoran's This Man, Joe Murray and Theodore Strauss's Night at Hogwallow. Both books and authors have working-class backgrounds. Tough, popular, sentimental hero of This Man, Joe Murray falls hard for a beautiful, chaste Polish girl, blames himself when she is run over by a train. Marrying without love, he exorcises the dead girl's memory, realizes his wife's worth only after a too jauntily told, bitter period of Unemployment and bumming. Night at Hogwallow is a bloodcurdling first work 'aid in the deep...
Over in Harvard Hall, they have reduced the whole matter to much simpler terms by just painting on the doors leading to the new back exit, signs which say "Please leave the class room by this door...