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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PUBLIC PAPERS AND ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 5 Vols.-Ran- dom House ($15). Dating from the New York Governorship to January 1937. with introductions and annotations, a total of 3,493 pages in all. A 14¼-pound shelf-filler, five trunkfuls of vigorous clichés, these handsome volumes have been widely hailed by critics as a successor to the monumental, unread papers of Woodrow Wilson...
...many British novels are family chronicles that modern British fiction sometimes looks more like contributions to Burke's Landed Gentry than to literature. Last week two better-than-average female British novelists added two more family chronicles to the lengthening shelf...
...first of his works were volumes of poetry. The whole sum of them was dwarfed by the 1,224-page Anthony Adverse, rale, 900,000 copies, His Action at Aquils just out, the row of Hervey Allen books on the shelf in his Maryland farm now totals fourteen. his membership in college fraternities totals two, Sigma Chi and Omicron Delta Kappa...
Most troublesome single spot on Western Union's ten lines to Europe is on the Atlantic shelf, 500 feet to 2,000 feet down, off the west coast of Eire. There, halibut-fishers drag heavy iron-weighted nets over the ocean's floor, frequently break cables, sometimes hoist them to the surface, cut them with an ax. To stop this Irish interference, the 2,641-ton, Canadian-manned cable ship. Lord Kelvin, put out last week from Manhattan. Aboard was three-quarters of a mile of nickel steel chain, longest ever forged, to drag a submarine plow Western...
Last week Nazification of Vienna's State Opera House left Composer Offenbach's lone opera on the shelf of verboten masterpieces. Reason: Composer Offenbach was a Jew. But yesterday's operetta-loving Vienna would have been a very different place without Composer Offenbach's influence. It was Composer Offenbach who invented and introduced to Vienna the kind of operetta that helped make Vienna famous...