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...even praisers of times past would have to admit that the historical novel of today stacks up favorably alongside its peers of yesterday. Though past-partisans might not allow Robert Graves's Claudius books, Alfred Neumann's The Devil, Lion Feuchtwanger's Power and Josephus, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers the palm over such classics as Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Salammbo, critical consensus would be that the modern exponents are obviously better grade than run-of-the-mine romanticists like...
...Netherlands. And Queen Wilhelmina never speculates but holds. Last week, therefore, Wilhelmina viewed with no airy royal detachment the appalling fact that one-fifth of The Netherlands Bank gold reserve had been withdrawn in the frantic scramble for gold produced by fear that Catholic Party Leader Professor Petrus Josephus Mattheus Aalberse might succeed in forming a Cabinet and might then take the guilder off the gold standard...
...House Chamber two by two. The floor was filled. The 553 available seats for the House gallery were jammed with the lucky spectators who, among 5,000 applicants, had managed to get tickets. Mrs. Roosevelt was there with her knitting (on which she did not work) and Ambassador Josephus Daniels. Then Franklin Roosevelt marched in and up the special gangway to the rostrum. In the hush that followed the outburst of applause, the ice tinkled out as Secretary Marvin McIntyre poured his chief a glass of water. Laying his glasses on the lectern, President Roosevelt, unsmiling, began to read...
...every Supreme Court Justice is born a little liberal or a little conservative. Last week Justice Owen Josephus Roberts proved that he was born on the borderline. Having voted on the gold clause cases with the Supreme Court Liberals (TIME, Feb. 25), last week he voted with the Conservatives. Result: a 5-to-4 decision declaring the Railway Pension Law, first "social security" act of the New Deal, unconstitutional...
Caught again last week in the crossfire of America's war on the Mexican Govern.-ment was God-fearing U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels. He, too, had been talking over the radio, not reciting racy verses but extending welcome to the U. S. Rotarians who are to go to Mexico City for their international convention next month. For his praise of Mexican flowers, landmarks and climate, Ambassador Daniels was roundly rapped by America which declared that, had Ambassador William E. Dodd done the same for Germany, "he would be greeted with a storm of angry remonstrance from...