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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What It's All About (Macmillan, $1.25) by William Allen White carries this foreword: ''The Republican National Committee has no idea this book is being written. Governor Landon has no idea this book is contemplated; neither has any friend of his." Although made up in good part from articles Emporia's White has written for the Press, including his piece on Landon for the Saturday Evening Post, What It's All About is the ablest piece of political pamphleteering yet evoked by the campaign...
...Dominic, or hauling out from their convent crypts the ancient mummies of Carmelite nuns, propping them up around church doors to look like saints.* Near Barcelona a dance to celebrate Leftist victories was held in what remained of a church, "in order to get the people away from the idea that it is a sacred place...
Though streamlined, the new cars are so designed that they can be used along with old-style cars. As more of the new type roll onto the rails, railroads will be able gradually to build up complete streamlined trains. To demonstrate this idea. Pullman will send its new unit all over the U. S. attached for a week at a time to crack non-streamline trains, of which the Century was first...
Platinum statistics are half fictional. Experts estimate that there may be about 12,000,000,000 oz. of silver, about 300,000,000 oz. of gold in circulation. They guess that there may exist 6,000,000 oz. of platinum. They have only a rough idea how much is being produced-it may be 300,000 oz. a year-and no one is sure whether the leading producer is Russia or Canada. Colombia and South Africa produce nearly all the rest. The U. S. piddles along with a couple of thousand ounces. Biggest platinum consumer is the U. S. What...
Nine Days a Queen has the qualities cinemaddicts have learned to expect from British historical studies: smart writing, fine playing, meticulous setting and casting, an august reverence for Empire. U. S. audiences, whether they have read English history or not, will have some idea of it after they have seen John Knox (John Laurie) preaching in Whitehall Palace yard; Edward Seymour (Felix Aylmer) passing sentence on his brother Thomas (Leslie Perrins) ; the pompous details of a 16th Century beheading...