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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viewed from the vantage point of three thousand miles, away from the guns and targets of local politics, "The New Deal", as written by these London editors, is doubtless a highly authoritative and unbiased judgment of the last four years of American history. Perhaps the most convincing phase of their treatment is the plentiful supply of factual material and indices. Information which we have long been wanting to see assembled together, and for which we should have had to scurry all over the country, has been made an integral part of the Administration analysis...
...political arena he has held to liberal Republican principles, and he was defeated by only a few thousand votes in the last election in his race for the Lieutenant-Governorship, showing great strength in the face of the Democratic landslide. He is a director of a number of Boston banks and companies, and a member of the Board of Overseers...
...seeped off the nation's front pages last week. But for a half-million people along the lower Mississippi it was still prime news. From Cairo, Ill. to New Orleans an army of 125,000 reliefers, convicts and volunteers worked feverishly to raise and strengthen the thousand-mile, billion-dollar levee system which stood between them and disaster. The levees were still holding as the hump in the river's back reached Memphis at week's end. High wind or heavy rain might still send the swollen river roaring through and over them. It was going...
Last week Mr. Doherty was pleased to learn that the annual Roosevelt Birthday Ball, which he and shrewd Publicity Man Carl Byoir started rolling four years ago when they were working together on Coral Gables promotion, had again earned many thousand dollars for the care of infantile paralysis patients. Far from pleasing, however, was the news that the Public Utility Act of 1935, which he spent $200,000 to defeat in Congress, had been partly upheld in New York Circuit Court (TIME, Feb. 8). With rough weather ahead for Cities Service, from Temple Hospital last week old Mr. Doherty made...
Many a friendly shade haunts the pages of Housemaster: P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, James Hilton's Mr. Chips himself. Author Ian Hay (John Hay Beith), a schoolmaster who turned soldier when his king & country called, wrote Britain's first War best-seller (The First Hundred Thousand), has written 22 books, all of them displaying a school- masterly healthy mind. His latest, a cheery tale of big doings at an English boys' school, is served up cool but crisp, with a slight sogginess inside, like British toast. Housemaster should please the large U. S. audience of Anglophiles...