Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Overnight, obscure Angelo Herndon became a front-page communist hero, his freedom a prime Red Cause. Released on $7,000 bail provided by the International Labor Defense, he marched up & down the land addressing Red rallies while I. L. D. lawyers fought his case through the courts. Twice Georgia's Supreme Court affirmed his sentence. The U. S. Supreme Court once sent the case back to Georgia because of improper presentation, then took jurisdiction...
...they found a ripe windfall in Mississippi's savage blowtorch lynchings of last fortnight (TIME, April 26). This was amplified by newsreel shots of Sit-Down strikes. And Schwarze Korps, organ of Hitler's special guards, was able to do its bit. It filled a front page with pictures of U. S. female wrestlers, headlined it: AMERICAN LADIES...
London's Sotheby & Co.. famed art auctioneers, recently issued an elaborate 171-page volume with 62 rotogravure plates entitled, "Catalog of the Magnificent Contents of 148 Piccadilly. W. I." No. 148 Piccadilly, W. I. was built in 1865 by Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, father of the first Baron Rothschild, who was elected to Parliament for the City of London in 1847 but remained unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest...
...BOOK of HOURS-Donald Culross Peattie-Putnam ($2.50). Rosary-like, 202-page addenda to Author-Naturalist Peattie's An Almanac for Moderns, brummagem "classic." Illustrations by Lynd Ward...
...CONQUEST OF POWER (2 Vols.)-Albert Weisbord-Covici-Friede ($7.50). Ambitiously attempted 1,208-page encyclopedia tracing the rise and decline of Liberalism, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism; by a onetime U. S. Communist...