Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vaguely about a "new situation" in China. As in the case of Germany, there was absolutely nothing the State Department could do except perhaps send another, sharper note, and get back another, vaguer reply. Simple fact of the matter was that for the first time since the clipper-ship era of which Franklin Roosevelt is so fond, the first time since Commodore Perry opened Japan to U. S. trade in 1854, and since Roosevelt I made growing Japan a U. S. protege in its first struggle for expansion against Russia (1904-05), the U. S. was totally impotent in Japan...
...present business era can admit that the last one produced a hero, John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937) certainly was it. Last week came the last accounting of this unique figure, the filing of the tax appraisal on his estate...
Democracy in the Making, by Hugh Russell Fraser (Bobbs-Merrill, $3.50), is history written with journalistic liveliness. It pictures in swift chapters the fight of Jackson and Tyler against the United States Bank. Packed with savory local color, Democracy in the Making makes the Jackson-Tyler era seem closer at hand than the Harding administration. Typical nugget of unfamiliar information: In 1837, during the Canadian rebellion. Englishmen seized the U. S.-owned Caroline on Lake Erie, killed the crew, sent the ship over Niagara Falls...
...Garland of Bays Gwyn Jones has written a realistic historical novel about one of the most romantic Elizabethans-Robert Greene- painting the most credible picture in fiction of that incredible era, and drawing one of the most convincing portraits of a poet that contemporary novels have to offer...
...reactionary; he was a little of each with much else mixed in, and the complexity of his views and, more important, his intuitions, provides an engrossing subject for the reader who wants to become acquainted with a mind which remained alive to the needs of humanity in an era of social irresponsibility...