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...cured him of that; he worked his way back to respectability as a brakeman on the Union Pacific, retired on his pension of one dollar a day. Humorless in its domestic episodes, woodenly written except for pages of authentic railroad talk, Railroadman is nevertheless a first-rate U. S. document, the best picture going of an old-time rank & file member of the powerful Railroad Brotherhoods...
...been "thrust upon the United States'' by the German Government. For ten of the intervening years a conscientious, 47-year-old, Texas-born scholar, Dr. Charles Callan Tansill, onetime lecturer in diplomatic history at Johns Hopkins University, has been trying to find out what happened before that document was signed-what happened to U. S. finance, the munitions industry, and public opinion; to Wilson, Bryan, Lansing and the miscellaneous group of pacifists and practical politicians who made up Wilson's Cabinet; to the German Admiralty, to international law, even to the hoary traditions of diplomatic usage...
Upon the desk of many a gloomy university budgetmaker John Price Jones Corp., fund raisers, last week placed a surprising document. It was a study of gifts and bequests to a sample group of 49 U. S. universities, which in 17 years have received all told $770,913,560. The surprise lay in the fact that these universities as a group had received almost as much from philanthropists after Depression as before it. Their receipts each year from 1920 to 1929 averaged $45,573,000, each year since...
...stage picture, the play is restless, intense, a tribute to Director Lee Strasberg's skill and care. But in an effort to turn honest document into honest-to-God drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...
...Friends until 1934, when she finally met Spy P. E. Glading a British Communist and member of the Friends who seemed to have plenty of money, plenty of colleagues whose affairs kept them traveling back & forth between London and Moscow. Miss X learned how to make photographic copies of documents for Mr. Glading, was sent by him on minor missions, finally rented with money he gave her a London flat which she equipped to function as a document-copying factory. Here Miss X worked with a couple who said they were "Mr. & Mrs. Stevens," could speak no English, talked with...