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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Harvard has come plodding through the centuries, one of his most consistent pitfalls has been the use of long words, with the result that no one has had the faintest idea what he was talking about. Just whose fault this was may be debated, but John should have known better...
...March is the reporter who sells her to the city and eventually falls in love with here Walter Connolly is the big, blustering newspaper editor concerned with scoops and the glory of his profession. The whole is done in color--good color for the most part; and the composite result is a burlesque of New York which would be delightful satire were it not so difficult to exaggerate the idiocies of America's big city...
...Prime Minister said: "As a result of my conversation today with the Italian Ambassador, I never was more convinced of the right of any decision than that which the Cabinet took Sunday" [drop ping Eden...
Modern Youth is also deeply troubled about how to get along with people-their parents, their teachers, their friends, their sweethearts. Delayed marriage-the result of prolonged schooling and joblessness-"aggravates the problem of sex adjustment for youth . . . with a corresponding increase in masturbation, clandestine relations, prostitution and homosexuality...
Died. Isidore ("Izzy") Einstein, 57, most famous Prohibition agent; ten days after amputation of his right leg; in Manhattan. With his partner Moe Smith, Izzy operated so successfully on what he called the "Einstein Theory of Rum Snooping" that as direct result of his raids 4,932 bartenders, bootleggers, speakeasy owners tripped to jail. Izzy liked to "play" streetcar conductor, gravedigger, fisherman, iceman, opera singer. He walked into the Democratic National Convention of 1924 (Manhattan) with a goatee glued to his chin, announcing himself as a delegate from Kentucky, found only soda...