Word: urban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject for his full-length screen portraiture of hearty, colorful U. S. types. Lifted this time from Edna Ferber fiction instead of history, the subject is Bernard Glasgow, Wisconsin lumber millionaire. The result, against a background first of lumber camps and small-town saloons, later of early 20th-century urban plutocracy, is an extraordinarily warm and lively picture of one of the few romantic aspects of the U. S. which the cinema has so far neglected...
...Democrats carried the urban colleges pretty well. Barnard, Columbia, Manhattan, and New York University all gave Roosevelt a 5 to 2 lead. De Paul in Chicago gave Roosevelt 1084 to Landon's 227. The University of Chicago gave Roosevelt a 2 to 1 preference, and also had the largest minor party vote, giving Thomas of the Socialists 143, and Browder of the Communists...
...five days old on delivery. Thus, via the pasteurizer, every quart of milk produced east of the Great Plains is potential fluid milk for city markets, arbitrary milk "sheds" or inspection areas notwithstanding. Farmers, whose milk always went to a creamery, cheese factory or condensery, now fight for the urban outlets. Dealer-controlled farmer groups, such as Dairymen's League help the farmer cut his own throat, make a united front impossible. The city distributor buys from 50 to 100% more milk than he can sell as such, juggles it among various classifications, does his own weighing and testing...
...address entitled "A Prehistorian's Interpretation of Diffusion." Although Professor Childe started out by saying: "Discussions of diffusion are apt to degenerate into combats where in only dust is diffused . . ." he made some very definite comments concerning the influence of environmental factors in aiding intercourse between the urban civilizations of the early Orient...
...street and industrial scenes, echoes of stray opinions overheard in crowds. As a poet he has been like a radio tuned in on several stations at once, getting bits of preaching, bits of political talk, bits of good music, bits of the chattering, discordant static of U. S. urban life. These several voices he has never before fused into a program that made sense or symmetry. With The People, Yes, he comes close to doing so, and the book narrowly misses a place with the best of U. S. poetry. Written with a deceptive informality, packed with native phrases...