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The fact that my entire "life" was reported in a purely ironical vein should have been clear to any child old enough to read nursery rhymes, but apparently eluded Mr. Tunis's keen perception in his anxiety for headline material. I have not been able to secure a copy...
Although the decision touched the Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals alone, an avowed wartime measure, it appears almost certain that the Court will view the rest of the T.V.A. project with similar approval. What Congress has done here under its war powers, it may do in time of peace under...
Deficient as she already is in key raw materials, at a disadvantage as she already is in obtaining food for her teeming millions, Italy is going to suffer acutely from a food shortage, from telescopic prices, and probably eventual inflation. Ironical enough, these will all result from the efforts of...
Edgar Lee Masters wrote Spoon River under the pseudonym of Webster Ford because he deeply distrusted the value of this work. A Chicago lawyer of 45, he was fighting a case in the Supreme Court of Illinois and an injunction against the Waitresses' Union while his poems were meeting...
Although outside New York the Odets piece has, in certain sections, been banned, in others its actors jailed, its director kidnapped, the two Pittsburgh presentations have been hailed, applauded and even encouraged. The local "workers' theatre," which presented the piece as the New Theatre in Pittsburgh, is composed of...