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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This neglected function falls under two heads: annual series of lectures given by the University, and lectures given under the auspices of a department. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, the eleventh year of which will feature an outstanding Swiss architect, are typical of the former type. Likewise, Archibald MacLeish will read his poetry this week under the Morris Gray poetry fund; the week after, President Baxter of Williams will deliver three lectures for the Committee on the extra-curricular reading of American history...
...chieftains who threatened to purge him unless he backed their candidate for a judgeship: "I guess it's more important for us to get a good judge than for me to stay in the Senate." Washington consensus: he is a plodding, middle-of-the-road legislator of the type which flourishes in contemporary Ohio, where Labor, Farmers, Pensioners all press hard on politicians. Chief idiosyncrasy, which he shares with his colleague Vic Donahey : chewing...
...brother enough money and land in and around San Francisco for Philip, returning unwell from the War, to give up lawyering in the city and go to raising walnuts and pears (at which he is a champion), and practicing leadership at farmers' association meetings. A quiet, pipe-smoking type who (like Downey) really wants the results more than the office, Philip Bancroft talks sharply about the "racketeering" of city labor organizers who "stir up hate" among his Mexican pickers and Japanese packers. He has made overtures to the A.F. of L. but hedged by asking why farm labor must...
This was exactly the type of assurance Adolf Hitler has been giving with respect to Europe. Neville Chamberlain last week had the British Ambassador at Tokyo, Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, demand assurances from the Japanese government that British property in South China be respected...
...Even the angle adopted here, the creation of a fake Indian maharaja to help plug an unknown orchestra, is anything but the result of a brilliant inspiration. Fortunately, the action frequently moves at a fast and funny pace; but equally unfortunately, the humor is invariably of the delayed reaction type, where the butt of a wisecrack absorbs it five minutes later. Pat O'Brien, who makes a startling reversal of type by playing the part of a hard-boiled-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold, is the principal recommendation, although one wishes that he would occasionally lower his voice...