Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BEAZELL Forest Hills, N. Y. P.S. Mr. Baruch was 69 on Saturday [Aug. 19]. >Great is TIME'S delight to learn that Bernard Mannes Baruch, hard-muscled, young-hearted, feels and looks like a Champion again...
...backward' European nations in which the use of electricity is nearly universal, it stands as a national disgrace." The writer is evidently misinformed. America leads in farm electrification as it does in all fields of electrification. . . . In percentage of farm electrification it must be compared with areas like Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, Russia or China, and it far exceeds any of these areas in farm electrification. If small countries of dense population, such as Holland, Denmark, Japan, etc. are to be considered, they should reasonably be compared with small areas of the U. S. with somewhat comparable...
...thing I am certain. Those who are having their laugh now at Governor Dickinson's expense better start patching their moral fences-if they have any-because men like Dickinson are going to have the last laugh. What this country and world need is a Moral Rearmament...
...career in Manhattan consisted of writing verse and pulp stories, of writing home for money. Married in 1933, and now father of a wise four-year-old son, Fearing has increased both his weight and poetry earnings. (He observes smugly of his latest photograph that it makes him look like an Italian gangster.) In 1936 and again in 1938 he was awarded a $2,000 Guggenheim fellowship...
...judge, tricks of the trade, fool laws. Clinching his points with many a keenly human story, he reviews such legal circuses as the trial of Bruno Hauptmann (Author Train thinks Hauptmann got what he should have got but not the way he should have got it), a legal lynching like that of Leb Frank, who, though probably innocent, was convicted of rape by a Georgia jury in 1914, later physically lynched...