Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle for reelection. Observers were not surprised to read last week in "Washington Daily Merry-Go-Round," the political column by Drew Pearson* & Robert S. Allen which is one of Janizary Corcoran's favorite wind tunnels for testing political balloons, a handsome tribute to Mr. Murphy and a serious discussion of his qualifications to succeed the late Justice Cardozo. Excerpts: "When Murphy was judge of the recorder's court he kept a little cardboard placard behind his desk where only he could see it. It read: If you must err, err on the side of leniency...
Chaotic terror in Palestine-politely called "serious deterioration" by British statesmen-moved U.S. bigwigs last week far more than Czechoslovakia's unhappy fate did three weeks ago. Secretary of State Cordell Hull promised to consult Britain on Palestine's future...
...records by U.S. jazz players. The Frenchman, Hugues Panassié, had never seen a U.S. jazz orchestra in the flesh. But what he heard on records convinced him: 1) that jazz was a very important type of music, 2) that the difference between good and bad jazz was worth serious critical consideration, 3) that this difference depended not on how jazz was written but on how it was played. To drive his points home, Connoisseur Panassié wrote a book called Le Jazz Hot which, translated into English, promptly became the swing fan's bible...
...Mayflower Hotel last week gathered 1,400 members of the exclusive American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology to study and discuss eyes, ears, noses, throats. Outstanding feature of the convention was the Section on Instruction which holds nearly a dozen special classes every year throughout convention week for eager, serious "O & O" men. Among the practical suggestions of the convention were...
Last week Editor Stearns brought his anthology up to date, and the 36 contributors (six of them the same as before) reflect a greatly changed U.S. In the new volume there is less discussion of sex and more of economics, politics, sociology, religion, psychiatry. More serious, it is less unified in tone, as a whole more searching, better documented, more thoughtful. The unabashed praise of advertising, written by Roy S. Durstine, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, is at odds with the entire book...