Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensational view of Negro voters' future was lately expressed by the Baltimore Sun's bitterly anti-Rooseveltian Pundit Frank R. Kent, who wrote...
...President Roosevelt likes him, listens to him, laughs with him, trusts him. delegates him. This makes "Tommy the Cork" (as the President calls him*) sound like a shrewd, insinuating schemer-which he is -but for reasons more tough-minded and lawyerlike than his critics credit. From his point of view, the firm of Corcoran & Cohen started out to do a job for a client -the President of the United States. If remaking the Democratic Party is part of that job, Partner Corcoran is well up to learning and playing politics tooth & nail...
...mark Jubilee-Birthday Week, ordinarily placid, sober Netherlanders went wild in celebration. Throughout the diked-in nation spanking wenches danced in the streets till the small hours, workmen, on paid holiday, swizzled smooth Holland gin, and school children, shipped to Amsterdam to view the parades, were treated with pictures of the Queen and slabs of ice cream. Highspots of the week-long festivities: the largest military review The Netherlands has ever seen, witnessed by the Queen (one of her favorite royal duties) : a commemorative service in Amsterdam's very old Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), where the Queen was crowned...
Jerry blows up. His friend the Judge takes a calmer view, says that all good conservatives were red-hot radicals in their youth. At last Jerry downs this bitter pill too, grants the young vipers his blessing, if not his comprehension, as they leave to join an ambulance corps in Loyalist Spain...
...observation on contemporary youth, Bricks Without Straw belongs in a category with Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents, Howard Spring's My Son, My Son! Compared with the jaundiced eyes of Lewis or the rheumy ones of Howard Spring, Author Norris' eyes seem cool-sighted. His calm view comes partly of his studied concern always to see both sides of Problems: partly, it may be due to the fact that the Norrises have brought up several nephews and nieces, kept open house for a dozen others who swarm uninhibited over the Norris ranch at the foot...