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...people's ordinary labors are thus the subject of compulsion, explosions of the full Bolshevik Terror automatically attend times of stress. Last week the chief drumhead court in Moscow was presided over by Judge Vassily Ulrich, famed during the British Engineers' Propaganda Trial (TIME, April 24, 1932). In a tome published last year by Dr. Karl Kindermann. a German research student who was arrested on suspicion by the Gay-pay-oo some years ago, he describes Judge Ulrich thus: "I was particularly fascinated by the loathesomely hideous face of the President of the Court, Ulrich. ... I immediately associated him with...
...Some tome, it is. Pages, 2,956; avoirdupois...
...Italians. With 120 members, Christ Church today shares its building with an Italian congregation. Pastor Wenner preaches on occasion, edits Der Sonntagsgast (The Sunday Visitor) in German which he had to learn years ago. A pioneer advocate of weekday religious instruction for children, Dr. Wenner has written many a tome, still doaders gently among his books and papers. Last week he spoke briefly at Christ Church at an anniversary service which was much more quiet than the one on his birthday last May. Of his long service Pastor Wenner said simply: "I stay here because I like the Lutheran Church...
...DECLINE OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM-Lewis Corey-Covici, Friede ($4). Readers who want to know the orthodox Communist point of view toward U. S. history, politics, business and society will find it on the grand scale in Economist Corey's huge tome. With its 622 pages divided into 26 chapters and well packed with dramatic graphs, notes, sources and index, The Decline of American Capitalism is the most exhaustive critique of U. S. social structure from the Marxian slant yet to appear. Other economists will dispute Author Corey's charts, tables, sources, as well as conclusions, but they cannot...
...David G. Plotkin?Covici, Friede ($2). One hundred and five drawings in Cartoonist Soglow's more rowdy, bawdy, free-line manner, together with a treatise by Idea Man Plotkin on the "dialectical message that all is not on the level." constitute the subject matter of this large flat tome. "After clue deliberation and many consultations with our publisher," say Collaborators Soglow and Plotkin. ''we have arrived at the conclusion that the Depression must go." The result is an original opus instead of a collection of Artist Soglow's previously published pictures from the New Yorker and the New Classes...