Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aroused by Germany's new paroxysms of Jew-baiting, the State Department ordered Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson home from Berlin to "report and consult" with the President...
Other New Republicans: South Dakota's Harland J. Bushfield, Wyoming's Nels H. Smith, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall. Iowa's George A. Wilson, Idaho's C. A. Bottolfsen. New Democrats: Maryland's Herbert R. O'Conor, California's Culbert Olson, North Dakota's John Moses...
...abdicated the throne of amateur tennis, had turned in his four-titled crown for $75,000 in cash. For the past two months it has been common knowledge that Donald Budge, champion of Australia, France, England and the U. S., would sign with Jack Harris (front man for Wilson Sporting Goods Co.) for an indoor barnstorming tour this winter. Last week the papers were signed. Starting January 3, Budge will display his talents opposite Ellsworth Vines in 70 U. S. cities, may make a second tour with Fred Perry...
...Tropic of Cancer has a bigger subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever remember to have read...
...first copies smuggled into the U. S. created considerable critical stir. The Saturday Review of Literature called Miller "the largest force lately risen on the horizon of American letters," while Pound announced: "At last an unprintable book that is fit to read." But when Edmund Wilson wrote that it possessed "a strange amenity of temper and style which bathes the whole composition even when we may find it tiresome or disgusting," Miller wrote an angry reply: "Damn all the critics anyway! The best publicity for a man who has anything to say is silence...