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...bitterness of his own heart, wrote the horrors of child exploitation into his stories of Oliver Twist, undertaker's apprentice and thief, and of David Copperfield who toiled long'and dismally for a London wine merchant. All England was shocked and startled by Dickens' tut ionized propaganda. Resentment was quickly followed by reform. The U. S. had no great novelist to dramatize the curse of childhood.* But it did have Florence Kelley. Florence Kelley was born in Philadelphia in 1859, an Irish Quaker. Her father had been apprenticed to a jeweler, turned to law, helped nominate Lincoln...
...Tut-tutting such back bench exuberance, the House proceeded to pass the final provisions of Chancellor Chamberlain's budget (TIME, May 8) by a smash vote...
...state of learning in Harvard Law School was gently tut-tutted last week in Chicago, during the annual convention of the Association of American Law Schools. Reported Harvard Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr.: "At present any allusion to science, literature or history is sure to be meaningless to at least half the college graduates in the room. An occasional call for a show of hands has revealed only a scattered few who had read Pickwick Papers. And the use of the relatives of Romeo & Juliet to clarify (supposedly) a complicated pedigree case led to an overheard conversation between two students...
...Tut-tutted a rambling pessimistic speech by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald which was called "far below his usual level...
...entire U. S. fleet is maneuvering in the Pacific Ocean. "Personally, I think the charges are absurd," barked War Minister Sadoo Araki in his office. "They merely reflect the nervousness of some overzealous persons, frightened at imaginary dangers." Such overzealous persons included the entire Japanese gendarmery, directly subordinate to tut-tutting Lieut.-General Araki. Japanese reporters, calling at offices of the gendarmery, had their worst fears confirmed, rushed off to concoct new American Spy Extras. Spies' Report To Tokyo last week Japanese spies, ever industrious but often stupid, carried what they said was a copy of the League...