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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jencic refuses until she weeps. Then Louie cannot be found. Then the truth comes out. Louie has got her pregnant. This time Jencic proceeds against Baker Krusack's advice. He is his own man now. He says : "I know all about Teena, more'n you do. It is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Churchbound, hulking Jencic shakes with love. "Don't shake," says Teena, "what's there to shake about?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

The Significance. Novelist Williamson always makes his plots go by putting them on the roller-skates of a social theme. The evolution of Jencic from peasant and Hunky (short for "Hungarian" - colloquial for Slav) to U. S. citizen and worker, is obvious and anything but original. But it is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

In Lakeview, Chicago district, a boy, seven, fell off his front steps, was taken to a hospital. "What's your name?" asked the interne. Said the youngster: "Orange." A nurse brought him an orange. ''What's your name?" asked she. "Apple," replied the seven-year-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Ford. Interviewed by Electrical World, Henry Ford preached frank monopolism. "People talk about a power trust," said he. "I only wish that there actually were a power trust, a central directing organization for the development of every power source in the country." He saw no evil in exploitation of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Utilities | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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