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Like Dreiser, James T. Farrell writes with his thumbs. His words are blunt tools that he must wield with force and repetition. Some of his dialogues, about nothing in particular, seem interminable. The significance of Ellen Rogers is not in its writing but in the fact that here for the first time Farrell has contracted his view from social to individual conflicts, against the backdrop of a higher social milieu. He has succeeded after a fashion, like a strong but clumsy pugilist who beats down his opponent with 15 rounds of body blows...
Soft-spoken Vice President Henry Wallace met last week for the first time with the new Economic Defense Board (TIME, Aug. 11) which he heads,* introduced his colleagues to the vast, spraddling economic powers they will wield. Not present was the man who will be the executive at the controls, whose job it will be to use that power as a swift, decisive weapon of warfare...
...close friend is the U. S. prelate who seems destined to become the Cardinal Gibbons of this generation: Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York. The two future archbishops were ordained together on May 14, 1916 in Rome's Church of St. Apollinaris, are both likely to wield an increasing influence...
...invested in a cigaret factory. Now factory and fortune belonged to the Standard Tobacco Company. Asa still had a job with Standard, but he never knew for how long. His wife, plain-faced Lavinia, had stooped to marry him. Later she developed a heart ailment that enabled her to wield an invalid power that she had never known in healthier days. Asa's conscience is her slave. Sometimes he succeeds in sneaking off to spend Sunday with Kate Oliver on her river farm. His hope is that some day Uncle William will die and leave Lavinia a legacy. When...
Whatever the wave of the future might be, he was on the crest of the present. To some he was a monstrous symbol-he was State Socialism, or Governmental paternalism incarnate, a man with powers too great for any man to wield. To others he was a figure of awful benevolence: the far-off giant in Washington who had saved their farms or banks or railroads or mines; who had rehabilitated stores, factories, schools, shops and homes after earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, or after financial disasters just as catastrophic...