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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shipwrecks of U. S. vessels on the coast of Oman being few indeed, the Sultan is content to let this Yankee clause stand...
...Europe's greatest statesmen thus flatly contradicted each other. Usually correspondents are blamed for such "mistakes," but last week the two Foreign Ministers seemed content to let their statements stand. With his usual adroitness, however, M. Briand managed to convey the impression that perhaps the real contradicter is neither himself nor Signor Grandi but a third party too potent to mention...
Stalin's mere "sympathy" for the work of fomenting the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" is not enough, cries Trotsky. He accuses the Dictator of resting content,with the "partial revolution" (i. e. the Sovietization of Russia). Comrade Trotsky, grand-old, fire-eating, impotent revolutionist, demands "The Permanent Revolution...
...need more faith in ourselves. Largely because of some decline in trade we have set about finding fault with nearly everybody and everything. Yet our government, our physical properties and our industries have changed very little from a year or two ago, when people were fairly content...
Most murder-story writers content themselves with two or three violent deaths in one book. Not so Author Thayer: his hero kills 39 people. But Thirteen Men is not a detective story, for the murders are all committed and solved in the first chapter. The rest of the book takes up the life-story of each of the twelve jurors in the murder trial, starting with each man's birth and ending with his opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer...