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...Harrison Township on a brisk, sunny morning assembled what the Valley Daily News described as "the greatest throng in Valley history"-nearly all of Allegheny Steel's 7,000 workers and more than two-thirds of the entire population (37,000) of the Four Towns. A special train brought millmen from the West Leechburg Steel Co. plant, twelve miles away, which Steelman Sheldon acquired last July to expand his $24,000,000 company. On street corners the visitors paid 2? for a 42-page Sheldon Edition of the Valley Daily News, stuffed with local advertisements hailing the community...
...CLOAK OF MONKEY FUR - Julian Duguid-Apple ton-Century ($2.50). Costume piece by the author of Green Hell; a brisk, fast-moving but conventional novel dealing with an ill-fated expedition from Spain to South America...
...Berlin one morning last week, brisk and rich little French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet was invited to the Wilhelmstrasse, cordially received by large and wealthy German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, and handed a most welcome communication. This was Germany's formal adherence to the embargo prohibiting arms shipments to Spain (TIME, Aug. 17) which was originally proposed by the new French Cabinet of Socialist Premier Léon Blum, promptly accepted by Britain and belatedly agreed to fortnight ago by Italy. After a beaming exchange of compliments, the French Ambassador hurried off to flash...
...former Communist" colleague, Scotsman James Watt. The Oxford Groups lay no claim to having a "former Fascist" in their midst, and German Buchmanite baronesses hedge when asked how the movement works in the case of German Jews. Last week, to a stray interviewer from the New York World-Telegram, brisk Dr. Buchman readily declared himself on Fascism, now No. i bugaboo to practically all U. S. churchmen...
...good life of old New England that was expressed in a good literature was brisk, independent, self-confident, self-sacrificing. After the War of 1812 New Englanders were feeling the first consciousness of victory and stability, and more & more citizens were becoming aware of the great gap between the European literature they absorbed and the peaceful, industrious, spirited lives they led. Men of affairs were also men of letters, but were like ordinary citizens in their manner of life, living simply, getting up early, working hard. One such was John Quincy Adams who felt that he could not have endured...