Word: reviewers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers in reinstating employees after a strike in a decision which heartened the National Labor Relations Board in its legal battle with the Ford Motor Co., The Ru-public Steel Corp., and other companies. In a session in which labor verdicts rivaled in importance the court's decision to review the entire TVA controvery. the highest tribunal found the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company guilty of discriminating against five telegraphers and validated the Roards's order that they must be reiuntated with back...
...Italy who do not seem sufficiently impressed with their surroundings are likely to receive from Mussolini a magnificent illustrated album on the accomplishments of Fascism, reputed to cost $100 a copy. To acquaint the world with the strong joys of Nazi Germany, German propagandists get out an elegant monthly review published in six languages. Last summer, Robert Lange, an energetic young liberal journalist in Paris, decided it was high time for France and the other democracies to begin a similar crying of their wares. He took his idea to Edouard Herriot, who talked to Leon Blum. Government backing was promised...
...Manhattan last week twelve people sat in a small office in the National Broadcasting Co. building and witnessed the first television book review in the U. S. The book was Sidney A. Spencer's The Greatest Show on Earth, a collection of photographs illustrating economic laws; the reviewer was baldish, bearded Critic Ernest Boyd. In a milky, translucent square of light in the television receiving apparatus, the audience could make out the figure of Critic Boyd, his features hidden in shadows, as he faced some indistinguishable framed object on the studio wall and began his review by exclaiming nervously...
Critic Thomas King Whipple, who usually writes weighty essays on modern poetry and highbrow fiction, once took a critic's holiday and made a searching analysis of the works of Zane Grey in The Saturday Review of Literature. At that time the prolific Western-story writer had turned out 33 books, with a total sale of about 10,000,000 copies. After thoughtfully picking them to little bits, Professor Whipple concluded that their enormous popularity did not constitute a serious reflection on U. S. taste. Zane Grey's tireless riders of the purple sage, lone star rangers...
...laboratory sessions" following the review the inspector appeared most interested. There was the usual trouble among the harnessing group, commanded by Captain Joseph Franklin '38, when "Benny," toughest horse in the unit, acted up upon having his clinch tightened. For a while it looked rather dark for harnesser William Murray...