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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately he dashed off a letter, addressed to Mr. Benjamin Franklin, in care of the Saturday Evening Post. In it he demanded a confession of the dark designs behind this hoax which flaunted itself before the unsuspecting eyes of ten million American innocents...
Robert Hichens' The Garden of Allah, published in 1904, when he was 40, has sold about a million copies. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson's If Winter Comes, published in 1921, when he was 42, sold 558,649 copies in the U. S. alone. Last week their latest novels (Hichens' 36th, Hutchinson's tenth) served chiefly as reminders that these once tremendously popular novelists were still alive. They also served as reminders that best-selling novels, while still frequently inexplicable, now show a big improvement over those of the last generation...
...dealings with the Führer, Mr. Chamberlain seems to think that the saving of a million lives was well worth the surrender of England's honor. His conferences with Hitler at Berchtesgaden and Godesberg read like the diary of a young lady crossing the Atlantic for the first time...
Leonard Crunelle was the sculptor of the monument, made possible through a bequest to the University amounting to over five million dollars from a descendant of the General...
Complete reorganization does not mean merely the elimination of the million-dollar-a-day waste reported by the board. Nor does it mean minor legislation on bankruptcy and finance which would only make it more convenient for a railroad to pass from one receiver to the next. Nor, above all, does it mean the billion-dollar rehabilitation loan by the government which would preserve and subsidize the present rotten and aged structure...