Word: trente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THIS WAS IVOR TRENT-Claude Houghton-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A trick novel about a four-dimensional man who is a walking prophecy of some super-race of the future. Superman Ivor Trent has keener perceptions than most humans, and a way with women...
While the rhetorical defenses were booming like long-range guns from Washington, other defenders were down on the actual battleline. At Fayetteville, Ark., AAAssistant Director for Production D. P. Trent was telling farmers that AAA is not regimentation at all, that "the most regimental form of regimentation" was cheap grain prices, foreclosed mortgages. At Reno, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis cried that opponents of AAA had but one idea, the same idea which led to the Depression: to keep the Government from helping farmers. And, most indefatigable of all, was the generalissimo himself, Secretary Wallace. At Ruston, La., at Paducah...
...Bill Trent was a rent-collector in downtown Manhattan. Like most of his colleagues he eked out his salary by "shaking down'' tenants whose line of business was not strictly legal. His craving for women, liquor, gambling made money his obsession. Hard up, he shook down a pimp of his acquaintance once too often, found himself the unwilling accessory at a murder. He lost his job, tried desperately to chisel in on some steady racket. Rent-collecting among small shopkeepers had given him valuable information about when and where they kept their money. Soon...
Next day Mrs. Ronald Copeland from Stoke-on-Trent tried again, this time with Sir John Simon...
...Myself (by Adelyn Bushnell; Malcom L. Pearson & Donald E. Baruch, pro-ducers). Bill Trent, an unsuccessful New England lawyer, hires a hobo to kill him, thus sending his soul into the Invisible. In the After Life, Bill meets his old A. E. F. top sergeant, who accompanies him back to watch his own funeral. Bill is properly impressed with the obsequies, but it soon becomes evident that his death is not the boon to his family he had hoped. His $50,000 insurance does not prevent Mrs. Trent's being suspected of murder, does not help his daughter...