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There is no attempt, stylistically, to re-echo the taut and simple brutalities of Hemingway; nor is there nay imitation of Dos Passos' inchoate complexity. Mr. Hoffman is not be obvious disciple of anybody who is being toasted by the aesthetes, 1933 model. His innovation in method places him in Proust's debt, if in anybody's, since the book is an attempt to remember things past, and to recapture their essence. The author muses on life in a German Lutheran minister's household, situated in a German settlement in New York State. The life that is led there...
Well-run Cincinnati voted nay on municipal ownership for an interesting reason. The citizens there decided against buying Cincinnati Gas & Electric's plant not because they were unsympathetic to public ownership but because they plan to get their electricity from Cove Creek Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority's proposed power plant on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. The Cincinnati Southern, municipally-owned railway, passes within 10 mi. of the proposed dam-site. Transmission lines could be cheaply strung along the right-of-way into Cincinnati where current would be distributed by a publicly-owned system...
That there is any justification to such a display of vulgarity or that I will in nay way bolster the NRA I difficult indeed to see. Actually, what is happening is simply that the NRA is sinking to the grubby level of the back-clapping, hand-wrenching Rotarian, and will presently descend to the more congenial state of shrieking hysteria; it will thus attain to a shrill crescendo of asininity. The effect of the whole thing is comparable to that produced by a firecracker exploding in a bowl of whipped cream; by this time the worthy General Johnson must feel...
...sorry business," grumbled the Herald Tribune. "A Joseph Yea-and-Nay," snapped the Times. "He has not acted as if he were his own man; scarcely as if he knew his own mind. . . . The fact remains that the best hope of a successful attack upon Tammany lies in the Fusion ticket." The World-Telegram turned furiously on its former champion: "'A plague on ALL bosses!' becomes more than ever the slogan since the McKee decision...
...Major Thomas G, Lanphier, onetime flying instructor and later business associate (in Bird Aircraft Corp. and T. A. T.) of Col. Lindbergh, bought Manhattan's padlocked Phoenix Cereal Beverage Co.. applied for a license to manufacture 3.2 beer under the brewery's old name of Flanagan-Nay Brewery Corp. Since 1925 the brewery has reputedly been run, with William ("Big Bill") Dwyer, by famed Racketeer Owen ("Owney") Madden, now confidently awaiting parole in Sing Sing prison, who last year ordered an airplane from, and was instructed by. Major Lanphier (TIME, June...