Word: interpreters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldtime German-American propagandist. Mr. Viereck ran a paper called The Fatherland during the War to counteract Allied- propaganda in the U. S. Of late he has been writing and speechmaking, "interpreting" the New Germany to his adopted land. When he heard his name mentioned at the committee hearing he loudly declared: "There is not the slightest touch of impropriety in the contract between Byoir & Associates and the German railroads nor in my connections with that distinguished firm. ... If it is right for the Russians to hire Mr. Ivy Lee, why is it wrong for the German railroads to employ...
...Last week it had occasion to heed him again when he published his long-awaited sequel Modern Art.* Critic Craven's second book, like his first, is a series of brilliant biographies ornamenting his chief theme: true art should be representational and born of a passion to interpret life. Such a standard automatically condemns abstractionists like Picasso or Braque whom Mr. Craven damns with glee. Most readers will find his statements as exhilarating and convincing as a homerun. Art dealers and Francophile connoisseurs will be less pleased with what he has to say. Examples : ". . . After 60 years of exploitation...
This course might more properly be called a philosophy of history, for it attempts to study the progress of the human race in all its totality and interpret from this the hows and whys of social metabolism. By means of the various theories of the structure and change of society, it causes the student to think and thereby fulfills the elemental requirement for any college course...
This decision put Mr. Hull in a good bargaining position to deal with Comrade Troyanovsky. And. more serious still, Mr. Hull might even interpret the Johnson Bill to stop the sale of Soviet bonds to U. S. citizens-a sale which is reported to have netted about $5,000,000 in the last few months. Furthermore if Mr. Hull chooses to treat the Soviet's export company, Amtorg, as part of the Russian Government, he can stop Amtorg's getting any commercial credits, all but bottle up Russian trade with...
...Senators were worried by one thing: the public might interpret Mr. Untermyer's attitude as hostile to the entire bill. During the lunch recess they mentioned this to Mr. Untermyer. When he returned to the witness stand after lunch, he declared: "I should consider it nothing short of a national catastrophe if this Congress should fail to enact stock exchange regulation at this time. I would take the bill as it is rather than see it passed by. I should like to see it modified, of course, but if it can't be, why then it should...