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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 500 authors and publicists. Last fortnight the Democrats announced an Authors' Committee of 149 names, including Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author...
...Sheridan, Wyo., tariff was the topic again. Campaigner Curtis, his 68-year-old voice grown husky from daily exercise out doors, recited-"Bacon, hams, buckwheat, cattle, corn, cream, eggs, hogs, lambs, lard, milk, potatoes, rye, sheep and goats, wheat and wool"—free list of the Underwood (1913) law, the law Nominee Smith mentioned favorably in his acceptance speech...
...bill will empower the Grand Council and subordinate Fascist organizations to draw up the one and only list of candidates for Parliament which will be submitted to the electorate. Italian voters may then approve or reject the entire list by a simple majority vote of "yes" or "no," but with no chance to vote for or against individual candidates. Rejection of the entire list is considered outside the realm of practical politics, and the new system amounts to a scheme for maintaining Fascismo permanently in Power...
Engaged. Sari Fedak, Hungarian actress, divorced wife of Playwright Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Guardsman), to Baron Frederick Vilarnyi, Hungarian Minister at Bucharest. When he sued for divorce Playwright Molnar accused Actress Fedak of relations with 42 other men. She replied in kind with a list of 142 women...
Among other things, the "seven best" above are NOT the seven best sellers. They are, instead the seven best in our judgment. In picking records, a buyer will buy from his first impressions. The above list is picked from having heard them some forty or fifty times. Anyone will tire of some records sooner than others-For example, JUST IMAGINE belongs in the second class, NAGASAKI in the first. The Music...