Word: reviewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer was informed that the work had not been ordered and was definitely not going to be acquired by that Library. The reason given was that this work was not sociology. It is hard to agree with this view of a book which was characterized in the "Saturday Review of Literature" by Harold Laski as follows: "No one is entitled to speak of Russia who has not read this book. It marks a definite epoch in the understanding of the greatest historical event since the French Revolution." Laski affirms this in spite of his severe criticism of the Webb' treatment...
...icebox two chickens, pickles, assorted vegetables, two slabs of cheese and other victuals; because he gave false answers at a previous investigation; and because he bullied enlisted men and made them "keep their mouths shut," his senior officers sentenced this Quartermaster Corps captain to dismissal from the service. Pending review of his case by the War Department, Captain Fleischer remained under technical arrest at Fort...
...become Guggenheimers, young writers do well to know such bigwigs as Critic Henry Seidel Canby (Saturday Review of Literature), who have much unofficial say-so as to who gets what. Applicants may do even better by knowing a modest, soft-voiced scholar named Henry Allen Moe, who is Secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, has in twelve years threaded his way through a round 10,000 applications. Secretary Moe spends much time digging out prospective Fellows. A few have been so shy that he "had to drag them in by the heels." When Secretary Moe lights on a likely applicant...
Then Senator Fletcher, with tears in his eyes, swung into action. He cited the report of a Presidential Board of Review which had approved the Canal for WPA. ("No board of engineers ever exceeded in ability and in training and in experience this special board of review.") He dwelt on the hurricanes which wreck ships going around the Florida Keys. ("I do not brag about those hazards; they are too close to Florida. ... I mention this as a fact.") He concluded: "This project is the mightiest force now available in making the Gulf of Mexico the Mediterranean of the Western...
...Gazette borrowed the office of the Newcastle News, got out enough papers for 70,000 of its 204,139 readers, then slogged on to the larger plant of the Youngstown, Ohio Vindicator. The Sun-Telegraph hurried a crew 30 miles to publish on the presses of the Greensburg Tribune & Review...