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From their grimy Midland factory towns, the late Enoch Arnold Bennett and David Herbert Lawrence went on to bigger and brighter themes. Now Authoress Phyllis Bentley, whose background is the textile industry of Yorkshire's West Riding, has taken up the smoky torch. The scene she dimly illuminates is industrial, but its appealingly human inhabitants move in solid outline against the drab shadow of mills...
...Macon, Ga. General Winship is a rare type, an experienced U. S. colonial official. He entered the Army in '98, wears the ribbons of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrec tion, the Cuban Pacification, the Mexican Punitive Expedition, the World War. As far back as 1906, General Enoch Crowder recognized General Winship's administrational abilities by making him Acting Secretary of State and Justice of Cuba. He served as Calvin Coolidge's military aide, was sent to the Philippines as adviser to the Governor General in 1928. After that he was made the Army...
...contractors (for construction of the new Cuban Capitol and of a highway the length of the island) on work certificates approved by the Secretary of Public Works. Not a cent had been paid to ex-President Machado or other officials. Later Chase Vice President Shepard Morgan admitted that General Enoch Crowder, then U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, had given "a horseback opinion that the $100,000,000 project would be in violation of the Platt Amendment" and that he had "threatened immediate protest to the State Department.'' This particular loan was never made, but not long afterwards while...
...spend the rest of the day laughing and laughing and laughing." Up to him stepped a bibulous Bohemian stared in his face, remarked: "Did anyone ever tell you how much you look like that awful guy, Hoover?" To a Manhattan newshawk Actress Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, relict of Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett (TIME, June 1), exclaimed: "Did you ever think about gland conditioning? And how soon it may be within our power to choose our character as we choose our clothes? Of course, its depressing to think that we women may choose them with as much obedience to fashion and uniformity...
Draft Sirs: It is neither TIME nor TIME-worthy to take credit from the dead. See the last sentence in the carried-over paragraph on p. 15, July 3 issue: "It was he [General Johnson] who conceived and directed the Wartime draft." To Enoch Crowder belongs this credit-if credit it is: and not to General Johnson. It irks me to find errors in TIME. MRS. P. M. RUCLEAU Santa Barbara, Calif...