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...Ramsay Mac Donald is Prime Minister as the result of an agreement between his small wins of the Labor Party and Stanley Baldwin's Conservatives to form a National Government in 1031. Mrs. Baldwin likes and trusts Prime Minister MacDonald because, although a Socialist, he too believes in Providence...
FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY - Archibald MacLeish - John Day ($.25). U. S. Poet-of-the-year is Archibald Mac Leish. whose Conquistador (TIME. April 11, 1932) won him this year's Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Like Proseman Ernest Hemingway, Poet MacLeish writes in a masculine style of quiet violence: his sparsely punctuated assonant verse often sounds as if it were spoken out of the cor ner of his mouth. That the greatest U. S. captains are not industrial, in Poet Mac-Leish's opinion, is indicated by his title. The six poems in Frescoes...
...arbitrary character of Communist literary criticism. For the rest, the Hoot is conventional and mild. Two undergraduates have collaborated on a dull catalogue of duller New Haven, and Mr. Charles Seymour writes with pale whimsy on artistry in dining. But it remains for the three reviwers to smother Mac-Leish and Pirandello with truffles of a more spiritual kind. Mr. Winter's long hosauna on Pirandelle in particular, is a jewel, a jewel of the genre ennoyuer bristling with irritating and inaccurate generalities. Mr. Winer may have made a long study of Romance Literature, as the editor insists...
...experiences on the boards, though. During my first race in Berlin, for example, in 1914. I won a 'preme' and was presented with two gold cigarette cases by the Crown Prince who congratulated me in perfect English, and refused to let me bow to him. "That's all right. Mac' he said, 'save your energy for the race...
...year showed Neville Chamberlain. Chancellor of the Exchequer, to be Britain's strong man but he was not yet on top; Laborite Ramsay MacDonald continues to head the National (Conservative coalition) ministry. Prime Minister Mac-Donald, more than any other official participant, was given credit for the outcome of the Lausanne Conference in July but there have been other conferences, will doubtless be many more...