Word: printshops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portraits; the portraits are not so much human likenesses as translations into brilliant descriptive talk of different types of human problems. Her characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic proportions: Michael, the burnt-out veteran of 32; Baruch, the philosopher of the one-horse printshop; Catherine, the virgin in search of an angel; Chamberlain, the cheerfully hopeless incompetent businessman; Tom Withers, the intelligently rat-minded foreman. Only ordinary character in the book is Joseph, whose very ordinariness lights up the grotesque genius of his companions, casts a reflected light on himself. Says he to himself...
...small-town Jeremiah, muttering philippic nonsense. His autobiography, Plain People, Heywood Broun called "prose of a sort to make every other journalist bite his nails with envy." The Saturday Review of Literature referred to him as the "spiritual legatee of Benjamin Franklin" because of his curt adages and his printshop background. Intelligent Kansans whom Ed Howe last week stopped rebuking for the first time in 60 years approve of him. At a dinner on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Globe, Ed Howe responded to a speech of felicitation by Senator Arthur Capper: "When we're criticized...
...found that his grandfather's fame kept getting in his way. Franklin was a national hero but Washington and the Federalists disliked his philosophy and feared his politics: they shut every political door in his grandson's face. Franklin fitted Benny up in a printshop and expected Benny to be happy, but he wasn't. "While Franklin, by his precept, urged him to become a craftsman, he obliged him, by his glory, to act the lordling. While he preached simplicity, industry, frugality and love of the people to him, his three houses, his sedan chair, his titles...
...settled opinion of the day when he called him "Printer to the French Directory, Distributor General of the principles of Insurrection, Anarchy and Confusion, the greatest of fools, and the most stubborn sans-culotte in the United States." He was attacked on the street, denounced as a spy, his printshop windows were broken. In the summer of 1798 yellow fever settled on Philadelphia, every paper suspended publication except Benny's and his old enemy Cobbett's. One hot midnight Death came for 29-year-old Benny Bache; an hour later his widow was printing a defiance...
...Vatican printshop last fortnight went a long document entitled Quadragesima Anno ("In the 40th Year"). To the world Press and to a throng of the faithful assembled last week at the Vatican for the occasion was handed another long document, an official resume of Quadragesima Anno, Pius XI's encyclical on the social and industrial world of today, amplifying and interpreting Leo XIII's. Finally, a throne and microphone of gold and silver were set up in the Courtyard of St. Damascus and the Pope came forth in person to address the workers and employers of the world...