Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delivered to an astonished Cleveland audience last week. The New Deal, declared the onetime No. 2 New Dealer, has made "not one inch of progress" toward solving the farm and unemployment problems. Its work relief program is a "fantastical flop." Its fiscal policies, if unchecked, will result in the "creation of floods of printing press money." Let us therefore, cried the General, re-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Aiken's central character is a decidedly different creation. He looks at himself in the mirror, admiring his lean, dark face, his masterful eyes. He sneaks into his friends' dwellings when they are not there and furtively reads diaries and personal mail. He leans out of the window of his apartment on Plympton Street and wants to kill an editor of the Crimson who is unobtrusively sunning himself on the roof. He artfully spins webs of deception around his acquaintances, lets them in part-way on his secret, laughs at their wholly average protestations...
...LORDS OF CREATION-Frederick Lewis Allen-Harper...
Last week Frederick Lewis Allen, author of best-selling Only Yesterday, used the story of U. S. Steel as a starting point for a long (483-page) discussion of financial and corporate expansion in the U. S. between 1900 and 1930. The Lords of Creation concentrates principally on the change from a laissez-faire economy to one dominated by gigantic trusts, but is studded with brief characterizations of the leading financiers of the period and enlivened with colorful items of unfamiliar information. The result is an uneven book, a straightforward narrative of speculative adventures in the sections dealing with...
While The Lords of Creation contains much material that readers of John T. Flynn (God's Gold), Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons) and Lewis Corey (The House of Morgan) will find familiar, it assembles this scattered material in readable fashion but employs it to point no novel or daring conclusion...