Word: mann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reprints: Vernon L. Parrington's "Main Currents in American Thought" is no available in one volume. Still te best study of American literature, as far as it goes . . . Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" is also to be had in one volume . . . Still another telescoping in Edward McCurdy's spendid edition of "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci", very good to have or give . . . Professor John Livingston Lowes' classic of literary research. "The Read to Xangdn," has now been reprinted. May it long serve to remind us that literary scholarship can itself produce the finest of literature
...remain. Hiram Mann...
...Note: Mr. Mann, a noted New York Counselor at Law, makes a business of challenging political opponents to debate. His "Toryism" is summarized in his tract, "What the United States Constitution Means to You," which concludes: "Let us rejoice, we are privileged to drink the living waters of America. Not for us the dark and deadly potion of monarchy, of autocracy, or of socialism. Those Americans who have visited the beautiful city of Washington will remember the apt phrase graven over the doors of the great Union Station...
...German freighter Adolph Woer-mann (8,577 tons) slipped out of Lobito, Angola,* where she had lain interned since war began. With her escaped the German liner Windhuk (16,662 tons), a vessel built in 1936, reputedly for special war work: raiding. Germans in Lobito said Windhuk, heavily armed, had been altered to resemble a British ship. They also said the two ships had finally made a break because their crews were becoming restive, cooped up on short rations. Windhuk had a crew picked from other German ships lying in Lobito. She still carried several passengers stuck aboard...
Married. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, 57, exiled former chief of the Italian Press & Propaganda Bureau, University of Chicago professor of Italian literature, author of Goliath: The March of Fascism (TIME, Sept. 27, 1937); and Elizabeth Veronika Mann, 21, youngest daughter of exiled German Author Thomas Mann; he for the second time, she for the first; in Princeton...