Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Senator Morris of Nebraska, arch critic of what he calls the Power trust, was of course prompt and bitter with his denunciation of Mr. Insull's "disgraceful attitude." Other Senators (Dill, Wheeler) sarcastically thanked Mr. Insull for performing a "public service." Washington waited to see what ef fect the catchy phrase "three mills . . . six cents" might have on the Senatorial inquisition, the great Power Probe, long-sought by the greatest inquisitor of them all, Senator Walsh of Montana. The investigation, started by a Walsh resolution in 1926, into the propagandizing activities and financial structure of public utilities...
...President Pritchett, astronomer as well as educator, Mr. Carnegie applied his celebrated industrial maxim: "Find an efficient man and enable him to do the work." For years President Pritchett was not only Andrew Carnegie's next door neighbor in Manhattan, but his chief philanthropic adviser and severest critic. To President Pritchett once remarked Charitarian Carnegie: "You really don't realize how valuable you are to me. You are one of the few people who tell me when I am wrong...
THIS is a sea-story that his also the autobiography of a Frisian immigrant. It comes to the public highly commended by no less a critic than the late Edward Bok. Mr. Bok was, however, from the Netherlands himself. It is obvious after reading the book that some prejudice must have crept into his introductory encomium...
...Author. Odell Shepard, 46, is critic, poet, essayist. He has written eight books, many poems for the Christian Science Monitor. His activities have included: reporting for a Chicago newspaper, church organist, 21 years teaching. Several years ago he told friends he was working on a new book, The Natural History of Hobby Horses. For the past 13 years he has been a professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. He may be found during his off hours, walking, bicycling, fishing in the unicornless country about Hartford...
...scrape together and signalize Canada's cultural fragments, Bertram Brooker, Canadian dabbler at painting and sculpture, music and dramatic critic, has compiled his Yearbook of the Arts in Canada ?limited to 999 copies?hopeful that "it will be produced annually if the public response demonstrates that it is worth doing." Because the fat volume is largely composed of disheartened little essays on the Dominion's dearth of artistic production, well might readers wonder why it was done even this year...