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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mercy of whatever restrictive influences may be exerted on Housing by makers and distributors of materials, by building contractors, by building trades unions. It was to clear the road for a big industrial push behind Housing that the Temporary National Economic ("Monopoly") Committee held hearings all last fortnight to search for such restrictive influences...
Biggest disappointment Mr. Clark experienced was his discovery that The Phoenix (1875) was not really lost; it was printed in one small edition in 1900. This play he thinks was the first to use the line, "And the villain still pursued her." Most painstaking search was for the script of Metamora: or, The Last of the Wampanoags, first actable U. S. drama about American Indians, and a favorite of Edwin Forrest. This week the Lost Plays series presents Flying Scud, one of six lost dramas by Dion Boucicault. Its claim to fame: the line...
...five years his home has been an old lighthouse on The Wash, a place of inlets and tidal marshes on the Lincolnshire coast; where he makes pets of the wild geese. Ornithologist as well as artist, Scott last year spent four months around the Caspian Sea in a vain search for a rare red-breasted goose...
...they were released and sent to other parts of the country. Heavily armed German patrols roamed the streets with orders to fire^at open windows. Day later, 2,000 reinforcements with machine guns, armored cars and field kitchens deployed in the market place and began-a house-to-house search for the culprit. A reward of 100,000 Czech crowns ($3,330) was offered for information leading to arrest of the killer. One thousand Czechs were arrested; an unnamed nurse, whom Czechs called a "great patriot," was questioned. The Czech mayor of Kladno was supplanted by a German commissar...
Perhaps, in their search for an apt historical comparison, the editors of "Time" should have turned back a few more centuries to the story of the Trojan Horse. Very truly yours Marshall H. Stone, Professor of Mathematics...