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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of businessmen calling at the White House could be considered a reliable index of depression, it would have appeared last week that the nation was in lamentable condition. During the first three weeks of 1937 when Boom was in the air President Roosevelt saw about a half dozen businessmen. Since the turn of this year he has talked with more than 100. The White House calling list may not be a very reliable index of business activity but it is-at the moment at least-a sensitive index of business sentiment. For the eagerness of businessmen...
...Story has become too enthusiastic about what ordinarily passes as innocent trade practice. Mr. Macfadden's True Story has 265 boy sales organizers who double as field representatives to see that the magazine is properly displayed on newsstands. On its regular force True Confessions employs only about a dozen field representatives, having no boy sales organization. In a long message to wholesalers last week, True Confessions complained that "organizers have been covering up copies of True Confessions on the newsstands . . . and have . . . thrown them in the dealers' return...
...with all its headlong violence, Boundary Against Night follows a clear pattern, contains a dozen long narrative passages that stand out like detached stories. Its characters are stylized social types rather than conventional realistic portraits: Ben Coventry, blinded during the War, generous, humane, intelligent, helpless, is a symbol of sightless aristocracy that cannot provide social leadership. John Hargedon, the hard-pressed, woman-chasing policeman, is a symbol of leaderless strength and courage that wastes itself. Ben Coventry lives in seclusion in his Beacon Street house, breaks with his class when the amorous wife of an old friend guides...
...know whether he approves of marriage or not, but in the last act the events and he become quite philosophical, and he comes forth with some decided views on death. He takes for granted a universal belief in the immortality of the soul, and then he explains that a dozen people, sitting very stiffly in chairs on the stage, are dead people in their graven, waiting for the earthly parts of themselves to pass away, and for the great metamorphosis into their eternal forms to overtake them. When the lovely heroine leaves her funeral and joins the dead, life...
...This can clearly be seen in the study of the Fine Arts. At the present time almost a dozen universities and colleges are offering courses in German art while a few years ago the Fine Arts Department was the only place where a student could receive instruction in this important aspect of art history...