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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overwork. A Düsseldorf public health officer named Gottwald, while puffing up a smokescreen of acclaim for general health conditions in the Reich, admitted that the curves of increased illness among workmen and increased working hours are closely parallel. Hardest hit are men in the building trades, who work 14-hour and 16-hour days...
About 250 feet long, five stories high, with two main wings parallel to the main exhibition building and a glass and marble fagade, the proposed Gallery is without frills except for a curving pool and sculpture court beside the main entrance. Its site will be a two-block plot of ground on the Mall directly-and dramatically-opposite Jack Pope's National Gallery, now in construction-a $9,000,000 pantheon with marble wings. Cost of the functional Smithsonian Gallery of Art (which Congress has not yet appropriated...
Kyra Goritzina was aware of the parallel between her lot and that of the White Russian aristocrats-turned-servants in Tovarich, which she saw in the movies and did not like. The Goritzins had their chance at a Tovarich performance when, working for a consul general in Manhattan, they were told that some "Red Commissars" were coming for lunch. The Goritzins took that day off, went to the movies...
Critics generally have praised John Dos Passos' trilogy, 1919, The 42nd Parallel, The Big Money (now published in one volume as U. S. A.). Leftist critics have pointed to it with pride as a dramatization of Marxist theory. "It is Dos Passos," said Communist Critic Granville Hicks, "that has shown the [Marxist] way. . . . There is no apparent obstacle to his continued growth...
Franklin Roosevelt, the Beards find, combines "in his thinking the severe economic analysis of the Hamilton-Webster tradition with the humanistic democracy of the parallel tradition. Whatever his merits or demerits as statesman or administrator, he eventually gave expression to the two most powerful tendencies in American history...