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Little Caesar was the eleventh on the list, Smiling Lieutenant, twelfth, Trader Horn, 13th, Public Enemy, 18th...
...been informed that seldom has a volume of its nature received such universal commendation from the critics. To quote two reviews from the East and West, out of hundreds-or rather brief excerpts from the reviews-Struth-ers Burt in the Saturday Review of Literature writes: "It is another Trader Horn, but far better than Trader Horn and more veracious. Indeed it is minutely genuine from start to finish, which is by no means the case with the average history of the pioneer, especially when this history is autobiographical...
...Trader Horn...
Liberal Runciman's amazing about-face resulted from the fact that Free Trader James Ramsay MacDonald now heads a National Government supported by the largest Tory majority in British history (TIME, Nov. 9). Since the War tariffs have again become a leading Tory policy. Against his will, Mr. MacDonald was forced to appoint as Chancellor of the Exchequer famed Tariff Champion Neville Chamberlain. Next April or sooner, Chancellor Chamberlain will bring in an ironclad British Tariff Act, sure to pass. But emergency tariff measures are in the hands of Britain's obscurest cabinet ministry, the Board of Trade...
That he was really unhappy-genuinely torn in soul and spirit-Free Trader Runciman proved by his own speech during the otherwise perfunctory debate on his bill. As a friend said: "Poor old Walter supplied most of the arguments why his bill should not be passed...