Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...created considerable critical stir. The Saturday Review of Literature called Miller "the largest force lately risen on the horizon of American letters," while Pound announced: "At last an unprintable book that is fit to read." But when Edmund Wilson wrote that it possessed "a strange amenity of temper and style which bathes the whole composition even when we may find it tiresome or disgusting," Miller wrote an angry reply: "Damn all the critics anyway! The best publicity for a man who has anything to say is silence...
Last summer, as talk of rewriting Section 77 grew, ICC put on the pressure. Western Pacific was the fourth Class I railroad shoved through the wringer in four months.* Giving a clear indication of its temper, ICC last week declared: "If . . . reorganization is to be successful, the capital structure of the reorganized company must be realistically related to its actual earning power...
...into Congress in 1911. Once there, he blossomed out as a protégé of Virginia's Carter Glass, who picked him as his House lieutenant in the fight for the Federal Reserve Act. During the campaign young Congressman Bulkley accused the American Bankers Association of bad temper and loss of dignity and some old bankers called him a radical. But when he was defeated for re-election in 1914, he resumed an orderly Cleveland career, as chairman of the Morris Plan Bank, ardent supporter of local opera, squire of a lakefront estate in Bratenahl, swankest...
...embarrassed remarks of the European representatives. Sample: Lord Leverhulme (soap) of England, retiring president: "The more freedom and smoothness there is in the give & take of goods and services between the countries of the world, the more encouragement there will be to the growth of that right temper between nations which alone can diminish the recurring threats...
...college student of Glendale, L. I., Vincent J. Ferrari, is launching the movement on a wider front, under the supervision of an able Paulist father, Rev. Paul Ward. Four Jocist study groups have been started. Jocist Ferrari, no worker himself, last week appeared minded to modify the thoroughly radical temper of European Jocism. Full of zeal against Communism, he seemed less interested in spreading labor unions (of which the Pope and French, and Belgian Jocists are vigorous champions) than in making "immoral" magazines in the U. S. the first target of Jocist artillery...