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Probably no group of writers or politicians has less respect for each other than the Katzenjammer Kids of the radical movement. Their polemical outbursts are juicy with accusations and counteraccusations. Almost invariably they get home safely, for good radicals, adhering to an unwritten code, usually scorn the capitalist courts. Past master at this sort of street-fighting is New York's Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party, U. S. A. Its most galling volleys are reserved for its rival gang, Leon Trotsky and his followers. So bitter has this battle become that unwritten codes have been forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Leftist Libel | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Unwritten Alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Unwritten Alliance | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...events in Austria have taught Lord Halifax things he did not know about Germans, the conference at No. 10 Downing Street last week impressed London correspondents as of historic moment. They drew the United Kingdom and the French Republic into what United Press's Webb Miller called "an unwritten military alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Unwritten Alliance | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Unwritten Recipe. Three Post editors spend one day each week in Manhattan interviewing writers, searching among book publishers' galleys and agents' piles of manuscripts for Post material. The rest of the week, from 9 to 5:15, all eight devote to reading and passing judgment on the 600 "first-class" manuscripts that come in each week from literary agents and to replying to some 90 letters apiece each day from inquiring, laudatory or abusive readers. It is an old Lorimer custom that no matter how trivial or routine the communication, it must get a personal reply from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Inheritors' Year | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...writen a few books and I've made a few explorations, but I'd rather stake my chance of being remembered on the unwritten books of your minds." With these words and quotations from Kipling and Jacob, Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, brought to a close his last lecture at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lake Brings 23 Years of Teaching at Harvard to Close With Last Lecture | 12/17/1937 | See Source »

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