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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article in the "North American Review" of this month entitled "The Fast Set at Harvard" is only the first of a number of articles intended to set before the faculty of the University a true statement of the inner life of Harvard's undergraduates. The author is working for the best interests of that institution...
...first copies smuggled into the U. S. created considerable critical stir. The Saturday Review of Literature called Miller "the largest force lately risen on the horizon of American letters," while Pound announced: "At last an unprintable book that is fit to read." But when Edmund Wilson wrote that it possessed "a strange amenity of temper and style which bathes the whole composition even when we may find it tiresome or disgusting," Miller wrote an angry reply: "Damn all the critics anyway! The best publicity for a man who has anything to say is silence...
...happens that accidents sometimes happen. One such accident was the failure of this department to state in Friday's review of "Amphitryon" that this picture is running at the Fine Arts. It was no accident, however, that this picture was very highly recommended...
Last week, with the reverberations of Orson Welles's radio riot still ringing in everyone's ears, Atkinson reviewed the Orson Welles-directed, Danton's Death (see col. 2). His review concluded: "(Ladies and gentlemen, you have just been reading a review of a performance of 'Danton's Death' at the Mercury Theatre last evening. It is a play of imagination based on history. There is no occasion for alarm...
...Franklin Roosevelt found this review "rather horrifying." Wall Street found rather horrifying what SEC did next. After SEC Chairman William O. Douglas and New York Stock Exchange President William McC. Martin Jr. had conferred, SEC issued a further reform program agreed on by the Exchange to prevent any more Whitney scandals. Main points: 1) more frequent questionnaires and auditings of member firms; 2) prohibition of margin transactions and the maintenance of margin accounts by member firms and partners doing business with the public; 3) establishment of a 15-to-1 ratio instead of the present 20-to-1 between...