Word: foe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose leaders are from Teachers College, Columbia. Organized this year as the John Dewey Society, these Left-wing professors succeeded in packing the banquet hall of the Hotel Jefferson with 1,500 sympathetic superintendents. Earnest Professor George Sylvester Counts sniped at four notable targets: 1) William Randolph Hearst: "A foe of freedom of assembly, speech and press"; 2) Alfred E. Smith: "Once a friend of Education and the common man, he has sold out to privilege"; 3) Past Commander Frank Belgrano of the American Legion: ''He betrayed the idealism and patriotism of the rank & file of American Legion...
...would point out that the ability to concoct a specious and readable thriller demands more ingenuity and special training than many a novelist can command. And they would further contend that the best murder stories can compete with novels on their own ground. Partisans might instance the tales of Foe, Wilkie Collins and Gaboriau, would certainly mention Dashiell Hammett, "Francis lies," Dorothy Sayers. While admitting that run-of-the-mine murder stories bear as little resemblance to reality as a crossword puzzle and are pieced together with as little regard for grammar and probability, they would point with pardonable pride...
...Oakland, Calif, from Washington went Texas' chubby Representative Wright Patman, loud friend of the Bonus, loud foe of chain stores. At the invitation and expense of the Allied Independent Merchants & Home Owned Businesses of California, Representative Patman crossed the Continent to get into a hot fight over California's new chain store tax. The Independent Merchants understood that, in the absence of the Press, Mr. Patman would give their annual convention a fighting speech against chains. Mr. Patman understood that he would be met at the station by a delegation of Independent Merchants and a band. Stepping expectantly...
...says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian but a prophet of sweetness & light, he thus bids Apollyon scat : "It leaves you flat, and it leaves every human being flat, and the thing for us to do is to go ahead and forget it as a piece of silly nonsense. . . . The only thing...
Died, Walter Liggett, writer (Bawdy Boston, The Rise of Herbert Hoover), muckraking editor of the Midwest American, loud & bitter foe of Minnesota's Governor Floyd B. Olson; of bullet wounds inflicted by gunmen as he stepped out of his car; in Minneapolis. Last month he was acquitted of a charge of sodomy against an 18-year-old girl after he had branded the charge a frameup by Olson forces. After the shooting police arrested a night club proprietor and a onetime liquor runner, charged them with the murder...