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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last moment the German chancellor--who had been bluntly told that the British and French war machines were being mobilized to fight him--stepped down from the boldest and most defiant undertaking of armed force in modern histor...
Among the noted Europeans to be present in Cambridge are the Very Reverned Walter R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's, London; Sigfried Giedion. Swiss art historian and a leading figure in modern architecture...
...Death Of A World, the faithful 5,000 get two installments somewhat above Author Romains' average. Men Of Good Will is not a straightforward narrative embracing many characters and telling a consecutive story. Its hero is modern society as a whole, so that characters are introduced who seem to have no connection with each other, drop out of sight and reappear according to no apparent plan. The first volume, beginning in Paris in 1908, introduced Quinette, a murderer, Gurau, a radical deputy, Wazemmes, a sign painter's apprentice; their stories, appearing in alternate chapters, seemed to be related...
Archibald MacLeish, poet and magazine writer, who won the Pulitzer poetry prize in 1932, will be Curator of the newly founded Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism at the Library. He will supervise the formation of a library of general literature on modern journalism, and also a microfilm collection of major contemporary newspapers in many countries...
Among the noted Europeans to be present in Cambridge are the Very Reverend Walter R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's London; Sigfried Giedlon, Swiss art historian and a leading figure in modern architecture: Kai Linderstrom-Lang, professor at the Carlsberg Laboratorium, Copenhagen, one of the world's leading research workers in histochemistry; and Richard W. Southwell, professor of Engineering, Brasenose College, Oxford...