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Communists would be dullards indeed if they did not cultivate such a vineyard of the poor. Accordingly, the Alliance has to play a canny game of Truth & Consequences with hostile investigators like Congressman Martin Dies. Fact is that the relatively small Communist fraction in Alliance ranks is larger than in...
MAINE BALLADS-Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2). Poet Coffin thinks that "the materials for ballads are still being made up every day out of the whole cloth of human nature." This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored...
Kick. In early 1937, security prices reached 194 on the Dow-Jones industrial averages, climax of a two-year bull market, then collapsed with a world-wide break in commodity prices. By July, prices once more had begun a slow rise, although volume of trading was unbelievably thin. It was...
Simon Lake's first submarine was a 14-foot, flat-bottomed contraption, built of yellow pine and looking vaguely like a flatiron mounted on wheels. It had a compressed-air reservoir built of an old soda-fountain tank, and motive power for both its propeller and wheels was supplied...
Normally even-tempered and, though often profane, seldom bitter, Harry Hop kins becomes aroused when WPA is at tacked. One of its loudest critics lately has been Representative Hamilton Fish of New York who last month said of WPA that "the whole rotten mess stinks to high heaven and, like...