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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign Service Not So Romantic

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Service Offers Unusual Attractions as a Career Says Embassy Member--Is One of the Smallest Professions | 5/20/1931 | See Source »

The conduct of Foreign Affairs is neither so brilliant and romantic as the writers of fiction and the producers at Hollywood would make it, nor so tedious and dry as the memoirs of statesmen, with their concomitant quotations of dull documents, might lead you to believe. It is a career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Service Offers Unusual Attractions as a Career Says Embassy Member--Is One of the Smallest Professions | 5/20/1931 | See Source »

In "Behind Office Doors" the theme is hardly less romantic than that of "The Lash", but instead of having the vast plains as a locale, the action occurs in a modern business office.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/15/1931 | See Source »

The significance of this criticism cannot be fully appreciated without contrasting it with that of the nee-classics which preceded it. Its emphasis had been on the plots of the plays, on their mechanical form. Coleridge, building on the rebellion of a number of eighteenth century predecessors as well as...

Author: By P. G. Hoffman, | Title: The Great Romantic in the Role of Critic | 5/6/1931 | See Source »

On March 4, 1929, a romantic parallel could have been drawn between the two big destinies. Mr. Hoover, onetime orphan on an Iowa farm, had the power and the plans for making the world's most prosperous nation more prosperous and happy than it had ever been before. Mr. Eaton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eaton Retreat | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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