Word: normans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pilgrim No. 1 was Acting Secretary George Novack of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, whose most eminent member is Socialist Norman Thomas, no pilgrim as yet. Last June the Trotskyist Communists of the U. S. merged with the Thomasist Socialists. Normally benign, Mr. Thomas becomes vehement if given opportunity to deny "the canard" that perhaps Trotsky and Stalin are not altogether sincere undoers of each other's work. In the Thomas camp it is an article of faith that Stalin, as Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is an enemy of "true Socialism...
With the Viscountess was the general manager of her weekly magazine Time & Tide (no kin), Miss D. S. Stanhope. Its staff is 100% female, its regular contributors about equally divided as to sex, Bernard Shaw and the "Provincial Lady," Miss E. M. Delafield, sharing honors with Economist Sir Norman Angell and Novelist Rebecca West, Dramatist Sean O'Casey. "In England people have stopped reading Punch in favor of the New Yorker," said the publisher Viscountess, "and most intelligent English people read TIME every week, even though during recent months large sections have often been clipped...
...take on the job. He called in Novelist Werfel, who was completing his best-selling Forty Days of Musa Dagh, to do the book. He called in Composer Weill, who had finished his music for Dreigroschenoper but had not yet dreamed of Johnny Johnson, to score the spectacle. Designer Norman Bel Geddes, long finished with Lysistrata but not yet started on Dead End, was hired to set the spectacle. Of all the episodes in The Eternal Road's tortuous history, those concerning its scenery are the most prodigious and painful. Director Reinhardt and Producer Weisgal originally conceived their show...
...Reformer. Having devoted a lifetime to denouncing vice and lobbying for purity, 79-year-old Canon Chase last week retired. Into the superintendency and the Washington office, where U. S. vices are alphabetically cataloged beginning with Billiards and ending with Theatre, stepped a seasoned reformer named Clinton Norman Howard, 68. He announced that the Federation, endowed with $250,000, would bend its efforts chiefly toward Peace and Prohibition...
...Goethals, food; J. Harold Parry, refreshments; Henry E. Reeves, transportation; Charles W. Hubbard, Jr. '37, manager of the track team, sons of 1912; Charles M. Storey, Symphony Hall; Arthur J. Kelly, insignia; Hans Miller, play; Heyliger deWindt, sports; Charles J. Fox, Yale game and stadium; James C. Trumbull, photographs; Norman R. Sturgis, art and literature; J. Gordon Gilkey, memorial service, and Thorvald S. Ross, field...