Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McNutt's anti-labor record stands out like a sore thumb and his attempt to make it seem to appear that organized labor is friendly to him is hypocritical beyond measure...
Regarding Mr. Axelrod's suggestion that ex-Presidents serve on a foreign relations committee [TiME, July 24] and Thomas Toberty's nai've backslap [TiME, Aug. 14], I'd like to present the problem in a more factual manner...
...TIME had in mind the Senate's estimate of the two men. The day Mr. Chavez was sworn in to the Senate, a group of that body's most distinguished members (Norris, Johnson, Nye, La Follette, Shipstead) pointedly left the chamber. That Senator Chavez is tea-colored, like the good U. S. constituents who elect him, is neither disgraceful nor untrue...
...Ravenel was a goodhearted, long-winded, affable Unionist who predicted that the Southerners would fight like jackasses and heroes. Southerners, said he, were an honor to the fortitude, but an insult to the intelligence, of the human race. Why, sir, they would become an example in history of much that was great and of everything that was wrongheaded. Father and daughter argued without listening to each other. He said that once when he got hit on the head, after returning to New Orleans, he knew instantly he was in the South, like the shipwrecked sailor who knew...
Significance. Strangest fact about Miss Ravenel's Conversion is that it has been forgotten for so long. Battle scenes like the storming of Port Hudson are superior to those of Stephen Crane; the humor, bewilderment and passion of Miss Lillie make Hawthorne's and Cooper's damsels seem moral abstractions. Although, in its 466 pages, the book sometimes seems labored, and antiquated asides slow down its fast story, De Forest's wit picks it up, springs out in the plain talk of soldiers, his comments on the appallingly dull conversations of people in love...