Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parson is not a young man as undergraduates count a man's years. Yet his verse has these qualities of a young man's verse: it is frankly derivative, it is fresh, it is largely emotional. Mr. Parson's prosodic and critical models happen to be Keats and John Lowes rather than Pound and Eliot. And a reading of this book, in comparison with much of the young men's verse of today, makes one wonder if Mr. Parson's preference is not something more than respectable...
...sense. For the C.I.O. chief was not satisfied with merely deploring the action of the judge who has forced labor workers Hapgood and aids to "languish" behind cold steel. Lewis stated that he blamed the State and all the people in the State for allowing such a thing to happen. In fact, he expressed the hope that no person connected with or interested in the C.I.O. would spend any money vacationing in Maine...
...Justice John Marshall, as a tool of the interests, Historian Dodd argued that most of the great People's Presidents-Jefferson, Lincoln. Cleveland. Roosevelt I and Wilson-had been frustrated by selfish minorities operating through Court decisions, Senate filibusters and Party splits. If the same thing should now happen to Franklin Roosevelt, he feared for U. S. democracy. Unmentioned but obvious point of Historian Dodd's epistolary essay was that the Senators should stand by the President on his plan of Supreme Court reform...
...that sounded like political suicide, Author Michelson reminded his readers that farmers are traditionally conservative when times are good, that they may sometime be won back to the "party of substance and solemn sedateness." But that, he trusts, will not happen in 1940, or even in 1944. Abandoning all hope of a na tional victory in 1940, the G. O. P. should concentrate on replenishing its treasury, rebuilding its shattered local organizations, electing Congressmen enough to "decrease the defeatist psychology of the party," picking and electing Governors "eminent in commerce or finance, for the reason that in 1948 the Republicans...
...What would happen to Joe Di Maggio [of the American League's New York Yankees] if there were no National League...