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John Tyler, tenth President of the U. S., was born in Charles City County, Va. in 1790. His son Lyon Gardiner Tyler died in Charles City County, Va. last week...
...Reform hinted in the Speech was the Bennett New Deal, a hodge-podge of Rooseveltisms blended with reform proposals lifted bodily from Canada's Liberal Party, the opposition led by former Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King. In a Montreal speech two nights before Parliament opened at Ottawa, Premier Bennett, one of Canada's wealthiest capitalists, denounced prosperous ex-Premier King as "entrenched behind the forces of Capitalism!" Amazed Liberals accused the Conservative Premier "not only of stealing our clothes but of trying to wish his old clothes off on us." Conservative henchmen were jubilant. Resigned until recently...
...book publishers scrambled for Woollcott words of praise for a new work, to splash on the volume's jacket as the blurb of blurbs. He prefers to "discover" some inconspicuous novel and, like a testy old sage, rebuke his public for lack of appreciation. He is the William Lyon Phelps...
Election prospects revolve around the Conservative Premier, his official opponent Liberal Party Leader William Lyon. MacKenzie King (now in frail health) and the unofficial opposition now rapidly crystallizing around nominal Conservative Henry Stevens, a onetime Bennett henchman who set himself up as hero of the mob with his Philippic against routine Canadian business practice (TIME, Nov. 5). This included violent denunciation of Canadian Woolworth Stores because they cut wages (later raised) at the same time as did U. S. Woolworth Stores, obeying circular orders from company headquarters in Manhattan's Woolworth Building. This Orator Stevens has turned virtually into...
...finished his formal education at Thacher School, Oberlin College, the Coast Artillery Corps, Yale, where he got his A. B. in 1920. Even as a Yale undergraduate he gave promise of being one of the prize blossoms of the current "literary renaissance," attracted the favorable attention of William Lyon Phelps and other Eli pundits. After two years abroad Wilder taught for seven years at Lawrenceville, took an M. A. at nearby Princeton. His 1928 Pulitzer-prizewinning The Bridge of San Luis Rey lifted him out of the academic rut. but two years later he returned...