Word: channelize
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...Author. Ludwig Lewisohn, fiery champion of his ego, is famed for his auto biographical novels. He once found him self in a $200,000 libel suit brought by his first wife ("Bosworth Crocker"), who thought she recognized herself in one of them (Mid-Channel). Author Lewisohn announced last fall he would write no more analytical novels. Short, stocky, pince-nezed, middleaged, he has a voice which is "deep, elaborate, studied." He has also written : Upstream, The Island Within, Mid-Channel, Stephen Escott...
...Correspondents nearly all believe that if the British Parliament (on a recommendation from the Round Table) grants India full "dominion status," the Gandhite Independence Movement can be diverted into that channel. If, however, the name only of "do-minion status" is granted (with its implicit "right of secession" temporarily reserved), there is about an even chance that the Indian National Congress can be horn-into quiescence...
...Because of the ten-year increasing flood of anti-Prohibition propaganda which has, during recent months, almost engulfed every channel of publicity in America, without adequate challenge on the part of those who supported the 18th Amendment," Prohibitionist Charles Reading Jones of Chicago, chairman of the American Business Men's Prohibition Foundation, announced that within a year he & associates would spend $3,000,000 to insert Dry advertising in 2,668 daily newspapers, 8,000 weekly and semiweekly publications, 20 or more national magazines. The A. B. M. P. F. was incorporated last January. During the summer it started...
...swing around Europe which included conferences with Governor Clement Moret of the Bank of France in Paris and with President of the Reichsbank Hans Luther in Berlin, whence he boarded the Bremen at Bremen. Seemingly there was to be a transatlantic Norman-Harrison conference. There was a trans-channel conference. But as the Bremen neared Cherbourg the two English valets were suddenly told to repack their masters' belongings. The British liner Majestic was told to stand by at Cherbourg breakwater for the Governor of the Bank of England. When the Bremen reached Cherbourg breakwater a tug puffed out. Down...
...after ponderous box of dull gold ingots was hauled up from the vaults of the Bank of England last week, rushed across the Channel to Paris, then lowered down, down into the vaults of the Bank of France, buried so deep that above them lies a subterranean lake...