Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which 3,000-odd chemists attended, was not a chemist at all but an old and frail man of high finance, diplomacy and government: Andrew William Mellon. Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars...
...classic Depression statistic is preserved by the railroad equipment industry; in 1932 not one U. S. railroad ordered a single steam locomotive from any of the big three U. S. builders. Most of the equipment companies were well-heeled, and most of them, Baldwin included, had already started keeping a few eggs out of the railroad basket by diversifying products. They knew also that year by year more locomotives and rolling stock were becoming obsolete. They hoped for the day when Recovery would come to the railroads and the railroads, in a hurry, would come to them...
...contrast with nuggets of contemporary wisdom. Sometimes he merely lists ordinary, everyday greetings to suggest the breezy friendliness of his hero: Where you been so long? What good wind blew you in? These themes are interspaced with examples of native folklore that range from Ford jokes to the classic rural replies to smart city salesmen, from variations on "No Credit" signs to examples of the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. The first sections of The People, Yes deal with the poetry and sardonic humor of the people: The old-timer on the desert was gray and grizzled...
...Beginning in that work to examine "our inherited cultural resources," he has occupied himself ever since with his penetrating analyses of the dilemmas of creative genius in U. S. society, establishing a critical landmark when he wrote America's Coming of Age in 1915 and producing a native classic with The Ordeal of Mark Twain five years later. Last week Van Wyck Brooks offered the first volume of a literary history of the U. S. that surpassed all his previous books and that, as the first unified modern appraisal of the giants of native culture, seemed bound to deepen...
John P. Frey, head of the A. F. of L.'s Metal Trades Department, who is stuffed with classic allusions and plumes himself on his polished delivery, was chosen to present the prosecution's case. He produced testimony that C. I. O. had encouraged industrial unions to raid their membership, introduced circulars and letters which showed that C. I. O. had been doing what all the world knew it had. Finally he gave a learned summation, accusing C. I. O. of being a "dual organization . . . engaged in defiant insurrection against the A. F. of L.," fortified his charge...