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...Significance. In Gold, Mr. Wassermann pursues, in that large, leisurely and intensely depressing manner which the Germans have made their own, an unrelieved essay on social decadence. The book is one more powerful and pessimistic description of the kind of society which produced the War???and judging by the observed results it is difficult to say that the descriptions have been overdone. It was, as Mr. Wassermann sees it, a society involved in the dry rot of overcivilization, going rapidly down "the great slide" because of a great decay. The translator's title is unnecessarily stressing the obvious when...
...War??? the precise attitude on this question remains to be determined...
...amount of prestige. Their offer is to function as an operating company for the Government in the manufacture of a metallic magnesium aluminum alloy, which has the strength of mild steel, would revolutionize railway car construction, cheapen transportation, provide stocks of metal?discovered by the Germans in the World War??? for airplanes and dirigible structures...
Strangely enough, in the estimation of one of the ablest political correspondents in the country, Mark Sullivan, McAdoo was responsible for Henry Ford's declaration in favor of Coolidge. There was a little personal matter to begin with. Many years ago ?during the War???McAdoo would not, or accidentally did not give an interview to Ford's "General Secretary" and Mr. Ford took offense. Besides that matter, Ford apparently does not like McAdoo's headlong procedure...
...GENESIS OP THE WAR???Cassell...