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...AMERICAN LANGUAGE: SUPPLEMENT Two (933 pp.)-H. L. Mencken-Knopf...
With this fourth & final volume, H. L. Mencken has had his say on the peculiarities of U.S. speech. The final volume, like its predecessors, is a vast miscellany, ill-arranged, bulging at the seams with inconsequential information, festooned with footnotes in such profusion as to give it the appearance of a gigantic hoax. Its elaborate cross references sometimes seem soberly professorial, sometimes like parodies on scholarship. The whole work now runs to 2,880 pages. It is surely one of the great curiosities of literature...
...seems to have escaped the notice of the idealists then fashioning a new world, and so late as 1935 its staff was confined to an executive secretary, an assistant and a clerk. But then its potentialities were grasped by the forward-looking Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Harold L. Ickes, and after Pearl Harbor it began to move into high gear. On February 25, 1943, it was reorganized with a director [and] assistant, two grand divisions of five sections each, a staff of geographers and philologians, and a working force of 110 altogether. During the war years it naturally...
John B. Cadigan, Jr. of Dorchester, Jay L. Failkow of Brookline and Adams House, Thomas R. Morse, Jr. of South Lincoln and Lowell House and Thorvald S. Ross. Jr. of Cambridge will assume their posts immediately...
...Harvard Club of New York "categorically refused to arbitrate" its dispute with the striking employees at a Friday night conference with Union representatives, AF of L sources in New York claimed last night. Club representatives could not be reached for comment...