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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week's Wednesday review day program at the University is worthy of marked attention, offering two of the year's outstanding films, "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and Claude Rains' excellent "Crime Without Passion." The merits of both these pictures have received widespread acclaim with almost universal approval from the critical sections of the press...
...Mokotow airport on the outskirts of the city there is a high turf bank from which twice every year Marshal Pilsudski used to review his troops. His coffin was brought to that bank. Veterans of the old Pilsudski legions kept back the crowds. Four squadrons of army planes flying in formation droned back & forth...
...fitting to review together the recent volumes of verse by Cummings and Kirstein. Both are Harvard men (Cummings graduated in 1915, and Kirstein in 1930), and both names connote, at least in Philistia, the no plus ultra of that kind of modern literature which baffles the plain man, and rejoices in its baffling. As editor of the late lamented "Hound and Horn," Kirstein frequently published Cummings, and if he were now a publisher, he would not be among the unappreciative tradesmen who refused Cummings' present batch, perhaps because they felt that, in these days of mounting expenses, they could...
Last week when Secretary Morgenthau announced that he would review the New Deal's monetary policy by radio, financial papers worked themselves up into a lather of anticipation: he was speaking to pave the way for more dollar devaluation, for remonetization of silver, he would make "an important announcement...
...suggestion and advice. It was he who saw the value of installing in the Times building the Pynson Printers, a small shop conducted by Elmer Adler (no kin), devoted to the finest craftsmanship. Since Mr. Sulzberger has been active head man, the Times has established a week-end news review, a daily book review of astonishingly free viewpoint. But no observer expects the Times to be changed fundamentally from the institution created by Adolph Ochs. Even if he could do it, Arthur Hays Sulzberger would...