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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ALBERT G. PETTINGILL...
...history which, expounded in his best book, The Promise of American Life, in 1909, has defied simplification ever since. A conscientious but seldom an inspired writer, he painfully ground out his long, unpopular, difficult editorials as a necessary but dreadful duty. But Herbert Croly protégés, from popularizing Liberal Walter Lippmann to scholarly Critic Edmund Wilson, spread Croly's ideas far beyond his reputation...
...Germany. The official German view: it all means nothing. But nervousness was evident in the war's most roundabout dispatch: Rome's Lavoro Fascista heard from Milan that "it is reported from Amsterdam that The Netherlands press publishes an item dated Berlin, according to which Field Marshal Göring will go to Rome next Tuesday." Berlin denied the report. Perhaps it was not necessary for Marshal Göring to go to Rome to find out that Italy was playing this war every man for himself...
Last week the heroine of this legend was once more thinking of the German Army and The Netherlands' floodgates. Nowadays you can stop an army by flooding just over its hub caps, and Lieut. General Baron J. G. G. van Voorst tot Voorst, Commander in the Field of the Dutch Army, had already splashed around on his horse through some flood-test areas (see cut). Lieut. General and Queen were ready to flood some more. Though it had rained heavily off & on for three weeks, The Netherlands opened additional dikes to perform what was described as preliminary "saturation...
...instance, after whooping up the "Three Little Maids" red hot out of a ladies' seminary with a gorgeous syncopated score and a crew of jitterbugs in the best traditions of Harlem's Savoy, if not the London Savoy, he promptly repents his sins and returns to the original G. & S. script for a while. Heaven forbid that any criticism should be smeared on the original, but it did sound pretty dull. It's too bad that Mr. Todd couldn't bury his conscience deep enough to let Charles Cook, his arranger, swing the whole score instead of just throwing...