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...does he go about it? He exposes Kcv + Street Noises (an element as different from Kcv as H 2 O is from H 2 ), to Public Intent On Business (which is as different from ME as carbon dioxide is from pure oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 12, 1930 | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...character] is a cockney character, self-confident, contemptuous and anti-cultural; it is very knowing and knows very little." But no yearner after yore is Critic Notch; he thinks the present age "most fascinating in human history;" despising and fearing Mob ascendancy, he wants "an emphasis on the nonutilitarian element in education." believes the basis of education should be "the self-sufficiency and self-reliance of the individual soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mobile Vulgus | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...comedy or the re-hashing of box-office successes, the Dramatic Club escapes the stigma of "amateur theatrical" a term which so effectively damps with faint praise many similar groups throughout the country. And with the experimental production of plays which have been brushed aside by the big business element of the modern Theatre, the Dramatic Club can, as it has in the past, render invaluable service to the cause of American Drama. But "policy for policy's sake" is a motto which has never been in keeping with high standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICY PLUS | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...started as a quasi-political attack on a presidential appointment is turning into a battle over the fundamental principles of government. Backed by evidence of Judge Parker's hostile attitude towards trade unions and negro voting, the opponents of the North Carolina jurist claim that he will augment that element of the Court which interprets the law literally, rather than siding with that trio of dissenters, Holmes and Stone and Brandeis, who make law a means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIAL BY JURY | 5/3/1930 | See Source »

...against Mr. Brown, a Vare-Mellon deal has to be made, with Secretary Davis dropped as the price of electing Brown; 4) William Scott Vare remains more of a political power in Pennsylvania today than he ever was before the Senate rejected him, by simply waiting until the other element of his party got off-balance and then giving two ambitious friends of his a push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Pennsylvania Wilds | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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