Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondent uses this analogy to point out the nature of the proposed transition, which is to be from a league of states to a union of citizens. The nations which would band together in such a union would have a common citizenship, defense force, currency and communications system. There would be no customs barriers within the union...
Sponsored by the Counsellors of American civilization, the photographic exhibit now on display in the Straus Hall Common Room portrays the life of the contemporary American tenant farmer and sharecropper...
George Rea was a bond salesman in Buffalo before the War, later helped form a Buffalo investment banking firm (Vietor, Hubbell, Rea & Common). Then, after a turn with Buffalo's Fidelity Trust Co. as chief of its underwriting department, he became first president of the Buffalo Stock Exchange, resigned to join Goldman, Sachs in Manhattan. When Goldman, Sachs's investment trust business fizzled, he set himself up as a consultant to banks...
...perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...
...literary excellence." Result: something new in sociological writing, a 421-page volume of 35 such true stories to be published May 20. Already exciting advance comment (Charles Beard: "As literature more powerful than anything I have ever read in fiction."), it gives the South its most pungent picture of common life, the Writers' Project its strongest claim to literary distinction...