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...18th language (Icelandic )', the New York Herald Tribune made known that henceforth it would use full U. P. service, domestic and foreign. With its own overseas bureaus and the A. P. and U. P. the Herald Tribune was putting itself in a position to rival the stately semi-officialdom of the Times in the field of foreign news...
Humor and passion do not go together. The revolutionary passion in Russia, cooling, is beginning to allow such fermentation as The Embezzlers. In an oblique manner Comrade Kataev makes fun of Soviet officialdom, hints that a hot time in the old town may still be had, and at government expense. But chiefly he reassures us that the Russian has not lost his old talent of being able to laugh at himself. The Embezzlers, neither Communist nor anti-Communist propaganda, is funny, and true to more than Russian life...
...Prada thereupon, last week, cabled his resignation, saying: "The orders contained in your cablegram are unjust and I shall not carry them out." He suspected the Cornelius episode had been used as an excuse to discomfit him. Washington credited Mrs. Poindexter, famed for her knowledge of the gossip of officialdom, with having this time created an Incident herself...
David Herbert Lawrence, bearded son of a miner and of letters, has often shocked his native England with the pagan implications of his novels (Sons and Lovers, Women in Love). His most recent tale, Lady Chatterley's Lover, he thought best to publish privately, stealthily. But officialdom soon learned of its existence, found the book so concupiscent that it was forever banned from England...
...Fred Essary took pains to mention that Mrs. De Priest had arrived early, stayed late, enjoyed herself hugely; and that Congressman De Priest differed greatly from William H. Lewis of Boston, the Negro Taft-time Assistant Attorney-General, who invariably declined invitations to the functions of white Washington officialdom. In Texas, a Negro-subjugating State which voted for Hoover in 1928, the one woman in the State Senate, Miss Margie Neal, got up, offered a resolution, declared...