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...most noteworthy Republican event of the week took place at Indianapolis, Ind. There a convention assembled to nominate candidates, heard a new Republican Keynote sounded by Representative Bruce Barton. Mr. Barton, famed advertising man (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) and amateur evangelist (author of The Man Nobody Knows), has become fascinated by politics since Manhattan's silk stocking district elected him to Congress last year. Said he last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Intimations of Grandeur | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Yellow Jack (Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Henry Hull, Charles Coburn, Virginia Bruce; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

LUCKYPENNY- Bruce Marshall - Dutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sermon Thriller | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Religious and mystical novelists were once able to frighten sinners by giving terrifying descriptions of Hell. Nowadays, they make the world sound as bad as Hell once did. In Luckypenny, Bruce Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle) demonstrates this development with a sermon thriller hinging on three themes : 1) that "rich men have been too selfish," which in turn makes the poor "unable to govern their greed," 2) that "mechanical invention has progressed out of all ratio to spiritual perfection," 3) that "men no longer believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sermon Thriller | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...Rotund Bruce Bliven, editor of the liberal New Republic, told the graduating class of Long Island University: "The American press looks a great deal better to some of its critics than it did a few years ago. This is not primarily because it has improved-although that is the case-but because the press in other parts of the world has become so much worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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