Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readily accessible for students or the public to tap the vast fountain of knowledge that is surely there. There was great danger that Professor Frankfurter, with the necessary anonymity that must cloak anyone who enters carefully hooded against the press, both the White House and Hyde Park by the side door, would soon vanish into the clouds and become an "informed source close to the President...
Many critics call the turn by glibly referring to The Sea Gull as a tragedy of frustration. But the play is tragicomedy, impaling human foibles as well as hearts. Tender but ruthless, The Sea Gull smiles upon the too-utterly-utter side of the artistic temperament, reflects the conflict between two incompatible generations. It exposes Trigorin's rueful egotism: "On my tombstone," says Trigorin, "they will say: Here lies Trigorin, who was a good writer, but not so good a one as Turgenev." It exposes Nina's swimming-eyed romanticism. Chekhov suggested, though Actor Lunt has not heeded...
...Federal Trade Commission has been investigating the possible existence of price-fixing and collusion in the cement industry for several months. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. announced that just to be on the safe side President Roosevelt had ordered that cement purchasing by all Federal agencies be concentrated in the Treasury's Procurement Division, that all bidders on cement and other building materials be required "to certify that there has been no collusion with other bidders...
...business. Under the then Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson, charges of dealer coercion were presently brought against the "Big Four" in Milwaukee. But the case fizzled when Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger indignantly dismissed it, after hearing that Robert Jackson was trying to arrange a consent decree on the side (TIME...
Dedicated to President Roosevelt, "repositor of the great naval tradition of the United States," most of Author Pratt's 496-page book celebrates the U. S. Navy in action. On the theoretical and political side, from Revolutionary to modern times, his limited comment consists mainly of scorn for the "pinchpenny pacifists in Washington...