Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publish in your April 14 issue a disturbingly eloquent letter from Robert F. Kemper [contrasting the monetary sacrifices made by many Army trainees with the wage increases demanded by defense strikers...
...British Admiralty announced last week that it will no longer publish weekly figures of the British merchant marine's losses-henceforth they will be issued only monthly. The reason for the change was partly to keep the Germans from knowing how effective particular attacks had been. But if the change was also made partly for reasons of home morale, it was an ominous sign. For the weekly report of merchant-tonnage losses has been the best barometer of how the war was going for Britain, and every Briton knows that although his country may survive disasters in the Mediterranean...
...head of it he placed burly Leon Henderson, most dynamic and executive of the New Deal coterie. Into Henderson's hands he placed powers which include authority to fix priorities on all civilian supplies, to withhold supplies from offending industries, to use priorities on transportation, to fix and publish maximum price schedules-and to advise the President to commandeer plants which fail to cooperate...
Glorying in the furor aroused by his social-science textbooks (TIME, March 3), Professor Harold Ordway Rugg this week seized the opportunity to publish another book - not a text this time but the story of his clashes with the Rugg-beaters who denounce his texts as subversive. Its title: That Men May Understand (Doubleday, Doran...
...American Academy of Arts and Letters elected Novelist Glasgow to membership. But the Pulitzer Prize committee still has not recognized her existence. She had the misfortune to publish Barren Ground the same year that Sinclair Lewis published Arrowsmith which won the prize. In the next nine years the Pulitzer committee passed over three of her best books in favor of Bromfield's Early Autumn, La Farge's Laughing Boy, Stribling's The Store. Novelist Glasgow went right on writing, revising, perfecting the series of novels which she had projected at the beginning of the Century - "a social...