Word: outspokenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale Divinity School, scooped the English language press with the first interview with J. Stalin since Lenin's death in 1924. He sold it to Hearst. Last week rangy, 46-year-old Dr. Davis, who was ousted from his Yale post seven months ago allegedly for his outspoken Leftism, now the C.I.O. standard-bearing president of the American Federation of Teachers, again broke into print with a report on another dictator, Getulio Vargas of Brazil...
...creating a seven-man National Bituminous Coal Commission. This body, with powers much like those of an NRA code authority (minus jurisdiction over labor practices), had as its first big job to fix minimum coal prices. Last week it gave birth to its first set of minima, to the outspoken approval of almost all coal men, the bitter disapproval of coal's best customers-industry and railroads...
...MEMOIR OF AE-John Eglinton-Macmillan ($3.50). Simple, direct, sometimes moving, biographical essay on the late George William Russell, whose career as a distinguished Irish poet ran parallel to his less happy life as an ardent, unpractical, outspoken politician...
Spark plug of the Group Theatre in recent seasons, with his outspoken Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing, Leftist Playwright Odets took to Hollywood last year, turned out melodrama that veered neither left nor right. That Hollywood has improved the Odets technique is apparent in the swift mounting of scenes, the extravagance of dramatic energy in Golden Boy. That his experience in the cinema has not lessened his power as a playwright of the masses is equally apparent. The Italian family of the play might have been sketched from behind the portieres of its own flat...
...election of officers. By A. B. A. procedure each year's president is actually selected two years ahead when he is chosen for the job of second vice president, thence moving up according to custom to vice president and president. At the New Orleans convention two years ago outspoken Orval Webster Adams, executive vice president of Utah State National Bank of Salt Lake City and thus a representative of small unit bankers, jumped to his feet on the floor and offered the bitter and impractical suggestion that bankers boycott U. S. bonds. Supported by a surge of other independent...