Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided at the last minute to be Wendell Willkie's floor manager, too, and that he was a driving force in the revolt that gave Willkie the nomination. The rest of that bit of history is that Stassen broke with Willkie after 1940. He gave an extraordinarily cool review to Willkie's One World on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, and he refused to go along with Willkie in the latter's fight to name the G.O.P. national chairman in 1942. Unlike Willkie, Stassen has been a Republican all his life...
Gene Tunney, most scholarly of the ex-world heavyweight champs, turned up in the Saturday Review of Literature as a literary critic. Novelist Budd Schulberg's pugilistic The Harder They Fall) wrote Critic Tunney, was "a vulgar book about vulgar people," but "very cleverly written." He read it twice, declared the retired champ: "I did not get the full significance of its gems of wit . . . until the second reading...
...this the beginning of the end of the export boom? Some exporters thought it might be. They had watched import restrictions and licensing systems mushroom all over the world. In its Monthly Review, issued last week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York told...
...wanted to be remarried in the church could apply to the bishop of the diocese after one year, and the bishop could decide, under certain specific conditions, that the remarriage was justifiable. As a brake on the possibly sentimental leanings of individual bishops, a commission was set up to review (but not reverse) the bishops' decisions, and assemble a body of precedents...
Both Professor Amory and Professor Brown graduated from the Law School with high honors and were editors of the Harvard Law Review...