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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politics, History, etc.: Raymond Moley, in "After Seven Years," lets his hair down and tells all about that awful man Roosevelt and his nasty New Deal which refused to follow Moley the Sage. Caviar to Republicans and reactionary Democrats. . . . Hermann Rauschning's "The Revolution of Nihilism" is a bitter attack on Hitler, by one who left the cause. . . . John Gunther goes on patiently revising his excellent and informative "Inside Europe" to fit changing political scene. And his "Inside Asia" does as much for that continent as his first book did for the scene of the current catastrophe. Which is saying...
...Richter and Art Page, could probably take his measure if they were in shape, and Bruce Richardson would overpower them all if he could descend to their ranks from his regular 145 class--another stiff reducing job. Dick Thomas. Sophomore scissors expert extraordinary, exponent of the crucifix, Oklahoma ride, etc., will prove to be a mighty tough customer for all comers at 145 pounds...
Contents were snob-appeal who-was-seen-with-whom-where-when articles and pictures, fashion gossip, etc., and a calendar listing events in Eastern cities...
...been spared from getting down to cases about tanks, torpedo tubes, guns, engines, propeller shafts, observation instruments, etc. Manufacturing these requires one of the few basic materials the U. S. happens to lack-tin. So does manufacturing tin cans to hold the No. 1 necessity of war and peace-food...
...Chap-Book started the vogue of Little Magazines (then called Dinkey Magazines), germinated the Chicago literary "renaissance of a few years hence. Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc. Kimball bought Stone's share in 1896, headed for Manhattan, made the only attempt to publish a U. S. literary daily (the editors burned out in a fortnight), soon fizzled out as a general publisher. He ended as an authority on industrial pension plans, inventor of World...