Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover felt obliged to preface his broadside with a non-partisan salute to Mr. Roosevelt's efforts. Next day, completing Jonah Hoover's bad political luck, his thunder was muffled in obscure columns of the press as the Munich settlement exploded on every front page in the land...
...Broun," "the fat Mahatma." Two months ago, Columnist Pegler jabbed a particularly tender spot. American Newspaper Guild President Broun was operating a scab shop, he wrote, because the Connecticut Nutmeg, of which Broun is one-tenth owner-editor, had hired a non-union reporter. Next week, from his regular page in the New Republic, President Broun heatedly denied he had anything to do with hiring, pointed out that the reporter had immediately joined the Guild, scolded Guild rank-&-filer Pegler for not coming to meetings more often, announced it was the end of their beautiful friendship...
...only Franklin himself, of all the people who have written about his life, seems to have realized just how droll a character he was. His latest biographer, Carl Van Doren, whose 845-page biography is published this week, makes it plain that Franklin was a great man, a notable scientist, a superb diplomat, an enterprising printer. But when Franklin as a human being, with his quirks and oddities, emerges from these close-packed pages, it is usually in the well-chosen quotations from Franklin's Autobiography...
...state of science when Franklin began his electrical experiments; an essay on the more worldly of Poor Richard's maxims, such as "There's more old drunkards than old doctors," or "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." Genuinely exciting is the 200-page record of the growing antagonism between England and the colonies, as Franklin witnessed it in London, where as a colonial agent he fought the Stamp Act, worked desperately for a reconciliation, appeared before Parliament to be baited by stupid and arrogant Tories, and was finally harried out of the country, cursing...
...most pioneer novels it is the first long years that are hardest on the pioneers, easiest on the reader. Reversing this order is First the Blade, a 631-page novel of the "Sandlappers" who settled California's semi-arid San Joaquin Valley. For the first 150 pages, which move as slowly as a covered wagon slogging over the plains, it is the reader who suffers most. This beginning goes way back to the heroine's girlhood in Missouri; and although the Civil War figures in her adolescence, the only valid purpose in these tedious chapters...