Word: herbst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ROPE OF GOLD-Josephine Herbst-Harcourt, Brace...
...trial's being a political persecution, both press' and public were admitted last day when the presiding judge had his final say. In a frank review of a sordid case, the judge found von Cramm guilty of immorality with an 18-year-old Galician Jew named Manasse Herbst who eventually blackmailed von Cramm to the tune of $12,000, hopped off to Palestine. Sentence pronounced: one year in jail, with the two months already spent in confinement to be deducted...
...House" gives with observant pathos a boy's emotions when his brother is dangerously ill with typhoid. Mr. Symonds contributes a pleasant piece of domestic shock in a brief reminiscence of a disturbing grandfather. Mr. Rowley begins a nervous tale of urban frustration in the idiom of Josephine Herbst...
...strike on his hands for months. To their great surprise the ladies left his office with the realization that they had suddenly settled the Ohrbach strike. Mrs. Hays was promptly chosen as first president of the League of Women Shoppers. Among early members were Writers Genevieve Taggard and Josephine Herbst. The organization developed a standard procedure of investigating strikes, boycotting, picketing if necessary. A strike last November at May's Department Store in Brooklyn gave them most work, most publicity. Of 40 League pickets, 24 were arrested...
...pale pink is Novelist James Timothy Farrell, who, like his hero "Studs" Lonigan (Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day), began in Chicago a generation ago as the frilled darling of an Irish family, grew up to be wonderfully rough & tough. Progressively ruddier are Novelist Josephine Herbst (The Executioner Waits); Playwright Albert Bein (Let Freedom Ring); Critic Granville Hicks ( The Great Tradition), who on his Fellowship will carry past 1890 his revolutionary interpretation of U. S. literature. Ultra Red is satiric Poet Kenneth Fearing, who bitterly wrote of a poor man run down by a truck...