Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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EDMUND J. KELLY, D.D.S. Major Dental Reserve Los Angeles, Calif...
During Mrs. Willebrandt's tenure of office, the Prohibition & Taxation division of the Department of Justice grew from the smallest to the largest. President Hoover contemplates making it even larger by adding to its prosecution of dry cases the major job, now performed by the Treasury, of actual field enforcement of the Volstead Act. Lately the President set his friend, John L. McNab, to plotting out a system whereby this transfer and consolidation within the Department of Justice may be effected (TIME, Oct. 14). If and when such a plan becomes operative, Mr. Youngquist will...
...perfectly suited to his subject, Stark Young has again portrayed the aristocracy of the old South and its inability to adjust itself to the new commercial expansion. The plot of the novel, what little of it there is, is centered around a conflict of two strong wills, the father Major Hugh Dandridge, the last of the old southern aristocracy in the district of Le Flore, and his son John, a Princeton graduate...
...accused of tiring the reader at many times during the book with repetition of scenes which add little to the final affect and make what should be a long short story a full sized novel. The characterization is all indirect and is best in the presentation of the Major's two maiden sisters, who command at the same time the reader's respect and his pity...
...ending of the book has some dramatic power. Creda Reid is suddenly freed from one of her major complexes, hatred of her mother, by the unexpected murder of that unpleasant old lady. The nerve doctor assures her that all will be well after this, if she will only learn to confine her vagrant affections to one man instead of to the Fifth Regiment of Horse Marines, or their equivalent in citizens of the realm. Creda consents, but we suspect that she had a cunning twinkle in her eye when she hurried from the consultation room...