Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BOOKSHELF for September 21, the title of the book reviewed is omitted. It should read AMERICAN VERSE, A. C. Ward, Oxford University Press, New York...
Citizenship, Blood & Honor. The second decree read out by General Göring is the National Citizenship Law. This divides Germans into "citizens"' (with such rights as suffrage) and "members" (rights not defined). Jews under this law are automatically "members,'' and German "citizens" will be degraded to that status if they are found to be Communists or otherwise "unworthy...
...trustees of Garrett Biblical Institute and a pillar of First Church in Evanston. Burt Denman has lately had cause to wonder about Methodism. In Hearst-papers he has seen its preachers attacked as Reds. In Methodist journals like Zion's Herald and the chain of Advocates he has read editorials criticizing businessmen, bankers and especially utilitarians like himself. He has heard bold sermons even in First Church, out of the side of the mouth of popular, liberal Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle...
Much as Wall Street enjoyed speculating about possible buyers, the final answer probably lay in a simple statement that emanated from Cleveland's Terminal Tower. It read: "Messrs. O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen and their associates have completed arrangements to bid for the collateral at the sale and have also arranged for new capital to carry on the enterprises...
Although Jules Romains attempts to make each volume of his masterwork intelligible in its own right, the stories are so interwoven that Men of Good Will must be read from the beginning to be appreciated. While Jules Romains excels in his portraits of ambitious and resourceful men and outlines their maneuvers with skill, his characters are for the most part singularly even and controlled individuals. They may be troubled or at peace, but they are not ravaged by the intellectual and emotional passions that lift the characters of Joyce, of Proust, Mann and Dostoevski to more than human stature...