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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turn their attention toward remedying an evil which has just been exposed by another convention, one in which the P. E. N. should have a very acute interest. The newly launched crusade of the American Booksellers Association against the continued publication in enormous numbers of the "pot-boiler" type of novel will have the enthusiastic support of anyone who was tried to pick out a week-end book while trying to catch the last train out of town. Even though a part of the booksellers' protest may be answered with the statement that the tremendous in crease of public interest...
...National Committee had made an attempt to discredit Senator Wheeler, that the President let Butler's selection be known?to show that the Coolidge organization would be a different group. It was possibly because the President had long been on close terms with Butler, relied on him, wanted his type...
...Auxiliary ships with increased speed must be developed, because these ships now constrain the fleet to a speed of less than 10 knots. only ship of its type now belonging to the Navy...
...During a debate on proposed increase in the British and U.S. Navies John Harris, Liberal, asked the Government: "Will the British Government approach the United States Government concerning the possibility of another naval conference with the object of preventing a new race in the construction of this [cruisers] powerful type of warship...
Philip Snowden, the "ascetic, intellectual type of burning enthusiast," "a frail figure of a man who walks with a stick,"- "the man with a hatchet face and small burning eyes sunk deep beneath a projecting brow," the man whose caustic sarcasm has caused his opponents to wither, was known to be a Socialist. Only last Summer he introduced a bill to suppress the capitalist system (TIME, July 23). Small wonder, then, that Socialism was the thought uppermost in the minds of the assembled M.P.'s when Philip Snowden appeared on the Treasury Bench...