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...that the U. S. joined the Allies in 1917. About equally divided between attacks on prevailing economic fallacies and less precise descriptions of the future dictatorship, The Coming American Fascism is a contradictory book, makes Fascism and the world in general seem so forbidding that only the grimmest spirits are likely to be attracted...
Born in Alabama 57 years ago, J. Frank Norris, like many another Southern divine, began preaching early, at 16. In 1908 he went to Fort Worth's First Baptist Church where he has remained ever since. Grimmest of grim Fundamentalists, he orates against Evolution, denounces the Roman Catholic Church, flays the "liquor crowd," excoriates birth control and divorce, thunders against bridge, cigarets, the cinema. The fact that in 1926 he shot and killed one D. E. Chipps, friend of Fort Worth's mayor whom Pastor Norris was then denouncing, did not bother the Baptists of First Church. Pastor...
...absurdity. The ghost of 1929 had last week the grim task of watching 1933 prepare to do what the anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had created out of big and little ones, voluntarily and deliberately decide to disband-saw, grimmest of all, the financial community giving tacit approval to the act. A. H. Diebold, president of Drug Inc.. last week sent a letter to his 30,000 stock-holders inviting them to vote Aug. 7 on splitting up Drug Inc. into five companies. What is more he told...
...writers he has moved familiarly among the pleasure-hunters of the U. S.'s expensive winter resort, Palm Beach, jotting down many a note of things seen & heard. Some of these ten short stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, but they would make good reading for the grimmest Communist. With few exceptions the people in Tropical Winter are vicious, hysterical, more than half-crazed by pleasure-laden lives. Since Deatfrdebunked Ivar Kreuger, no one supposes that matches are made in heaven, but bourgeois opinion still holds that Palm Beach and romance go hand in hand. Author Hergesheimer does...
...after desperate day last week Dr. Otto Ender, Chancellor of Austria, staved off the fall of his cabinet and strove to avert the grimmest fiscal crisis which his country has faced since her finances were officially stabilized by the League of Nations. There was even talk that Austria might have to place herself under League fiscal tutelage again. Cause of the crisis was the near failure of Osterreichische Kreditanstalt, the great Vienna bank founded 86 years ago by the House of Rothschild. On its board of directors today sit representatives of the Bank of England, Manhattan's Guaranty Trust...