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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: White House Tunes | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...conversation regarding me and my activities can be completely disproved. . . . I simply desire to notify you that if you take the responsibility for publishing the statements by General Johnson . . . you must accept the full legal responsibility for taking such action without any adequate effort to assure yourself of the truth of the libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ants in Pants | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Whether or not he has a "style," Sherwood Anderson's style of writing-pondering, whittling, awkwardly echolalic-is all his own. No Swank is trademarked on every page. With the late great Chekhov, Anderson shares the faculty of the truthful blurt: "Almost always, when one of your friends gets kicked down stairs, you're glad. It is a nasty fact, but it is a truth." No matter how sarcastic he feels, he cannot be nasty about it: "There is too much of this bunk about a man having a mind because he has read the classics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anderson Embers | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...dingy figure. Grant, like his 15-year senior, Lee, served in the Mexican War, but his no less brilliant accomplishments were overlooked, says McCormick. Shortly afterward he resigned from the army, under the accusation of intoxication while paying off troops. His belligerent biographer does not admit the truth of the charge, denies that Grant ever drank more "than any number of successful men in and out of military life." Later, however, he admits that Grant was induced by one of his subordinates to sign the pledge for the duration of the war, sometimes broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Hero | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...truth is I am more of a farmer than a soldier. I take little or no interest in military affairs. I never went into the army without regret and I never retired without pleasure." Thus, to a shocked German Crown Prince, spoke the great General Grant, full fed on victories and honors. Biographer McCormick quotes his hero's unheroic remark with Yankee pride, proceeds to argue that Grant was the greatest soldier of them all. Grant's military genius, thinks the publisher of the Chicago Tribune, has never had its due; his reputation has been unjustly overshadowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Hero | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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