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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marquis, colyumist-playwright (Old Soak): "Upon reading in Heywood Broun's column a letter, signed 'Don,' which told how many rejection slips the writer had received from editors, I wrote Heywood Broun a letter: -. . . I don't want anybody in the trade to think it is I who have had all these rejections, as it might hurt business. I have been in the writing business 25 years, and have sold every manuscript I ever produced...
...Dial. Since 1920 he has edited the Sociological Review in Eng land. He acknowledges an "intellectual debt" to Professor Patrick Geddes of India and Edinburgh, whose work in synthetics (making science, especially biology and geography, serve society in town-planning, education, etc.) he began investigating and studying, by letter, in 1916. Already two Mumford books have wide fame: The Story of Utopias and Sticks and Stones (U. S. civilization understood through U. S. architecture...
...plane was sighted, wrecked on the North African sea dunes, 60 miles from Cape Juby. Then a native trotted in to civilization with a letter from Major Larre-Borges. Moorish tribesmen had taken him and his comrades and their possessions into camp, he said. There must be a ransom. Uruguay cabled its diplomats to spare no cost. Spain mustered a military rescue party. Semi-financial negotiations moved. Commercial planes flew out to pick up the castaways...
...agent for one of the oldest classes, wrote in his letter: "Let us therefore try to double 18--'s percentage and get fourth place on the list. Do not hesitate to send a dollar or two, unless you really want to give more. Of course this, our---anniversary year with its financial burdens, is not favorable for a great showing, but let us do our best...
...school is "to supply scientific knowledge of the complex problems of adjustment between individuals and environment, emphasizing home and family; to produce women better trained for leadership through intensive study of their own peculiar opportunities and responsibilities; and to make men letter husbands and fathers...