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Your attitude on the Pepper-Geyer anti-poll tax bill seems most unfair to me. I, too, am heartily opposed to the poll tax, itself. Yet to me and to all Southerners this bill seems an unconstitutional interference in our affairs and is bound to do more harm than good...
...refusing to permit Senate discussion of the much-publicized Pepper-Geyer anti-poll tax bill, the filibusterers do more than slight the democratic processes they were elected to direct. The foul blow they strike at Senate prestige joins that body's earlier self-inflicted black eyes to push it into the very depths of public esteem. More important, vital war measures must bow before their legislative sabotage; and now when every minute counts this sabotage is scheduled to last a month...
This big (790-page) novel by the author of Mozart and Of Lena Geyer is an unusually successful attempt to dramatize the central factor in the last half-century of U.S. life-big industry. To most writers, industry has been a monster-to be avoided as too grim or assailed as too inhuman. To Novelist Davenport industry is a fact to be understood. Her approach to such understanding is through the human relationships of a steelmaking family. The Valley of Decision is also a chronicle of American family life. It begins in the 1870s, when young men were dazzling...
...become impossible for her, and that in taking only her recent baby with her she was taking from Carl Friedrich something for which he may have believed he had no call to feel any paternal enthusiasm? ... It certainly looks ... as if the gallant opponents of the theory of the Geyer paternity have been defending a lost cause...
...first two volumes of his mammoth Life of Richard Wagner, scholarly Biographer Ernest Newman, musicritic of the London Sunday Times, viewed the Geyer issue from a safe perch on the fence. In the third volume, published this week (Knopf; $5), Mr. Newman let himself carefully down on the non-Aryan side. Fundamental premise: Geyer was a lodger in the household of Police Actuary Carl Friedrich Wagner in Leipzig; there is no evidence that he was not there in the late summer of 1812, when Johanna Rosina Wagner conceived the child who was to be called Richard. New evidence...