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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WORLD Is MINE-William Blake-Simon & Schuster...
...echoes of Christina Stead's month-and-a-half-old House of All Nations (TIME, June 13). Both novels run to about the same length, both have the same satirical, tight-nerved, epigrammatic slant on their backgrounds of international high finance, war and revolution. The World Is Mine, with a more extravagant range, livelier plot, less diffuseness, is better than Author Stead's brilliant book...
During the dull days of post-War recovery, Cristobal goes to work on four English bankers who stole his father's copper mine, ruins them separately with deliberately prolonged, sadistic finesse. Tuning up for the last revenge, on capitalism, Cristobal begins by short-selling the world's best shoe and smelting stock in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, utilities in honor of Tom Mooney, and so on through all the martyrs of radicalism. Meanwhile he has married a poor, tuberculous girl, returned to Spain to finance an uprising. A hero in the first days of the Spanish Civil...
Like House of All Nations, The World Is Mine is a novel with an unpredictable future. Safest bet is that a few readers will enjoy its spotty but brilliant literary coloring, while the rest get the effect of a faulty spectrum that whirls out of a bad shade...
...also called a National Health Conference, which met last week in Washington to sound out popular opinion on an extensive Government program of medical service. Present were 175 delegates of the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Federation of Labor, National Consumers' League, National League of Women Voters, United Mine Workers, etc. Also present were Dr. Hugh Cabot, leader of the 430 rebel doctors, and the A. M. A.'s triumvirate: President Irvin Abell, General Manager Olin West and Editor Morris Fishbein...