Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator O'Mahoney's Monopoly Committee. He appeared at its investment bank hearings to tell how to fix up the capital market. Erudite, as usual, he backed up his remarks by allusions to economic bigwigs like England's John Maynard Keynes, Brookings Institution's Harold Glenn Moulton. His program took over three much-hashed New Deal recovery inducers, pronounced them not-radical, stamped them with the Berle trademark...
...that bids fair to cook his goose for good, as far as the Communists are concerned. Adventures of a Young Man, first of an intended series of contemporary portraits, traces the evolution, in the '203 and '305, of a middle-class radical. Sandy-haired, grey-eyed, idealistic Glenn Spotswood was brought up to be a Christian Gentleman. But his father was liberal enough to get fired from Columbia University for opposing U. S. entry into the War. Other radicalizers in Glenn's young manhood were a good-humored rebel chum; a freshman roommate hipped...
...college, what Glenn learns in extracurricular sex and socialism is not the stock stuff of left-wing propaganda novels. Seduced by a friend's Communist wife, who says he represents "the confused ignorant masses of America," he is brought into the Party only indirectly-the Revolution offers an alternative to being driven crazy...
Longest and liveliest part of the story tells of Glenn's shattering experiences as a Red trade-union organizer in a Southern coal strike (resembling that of Harlan County in 1931). When two deputies are shot, mass arrests hit both the Red union and its rival. Glenn, who is nearly killed by vigilantes, urges a united-front defense. But Comrade Silverstone, of Manhattan, sneers: "There's too much of the artist in you, Sandy." Silverstone says they will take care of their own comrades, let the others, who are "politically undeveloped," take care of themselves. Their own comrades...
Sitting at home, Glenn Martin goes over airplane plans, thinks about plant expansions, reads technical papers on aircraft design in which he tries to keep up in his spare time. He seldom goes out, dislikes social functions, steers clear of parties and tries to keep at work. When he feels overworked, which sometimes happens after a hard day, he takes a turn around the block and goes...