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...Manhattan's Democracy five years ago, Tammany was the unchallenged political power in the nation's No. 1 city, a controlling factor in the State. Soon thereafter began a string of monotonous mistakes. Tammany stood by Mayor "Jimmy" Walker long after the dirt in the municipal nest foredoomed his Administration. Tammany put its bets on Al Smith instead of Franklin Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Tammany bucked the nomination of honest Herbert Henry Lehman for Governor of the State. Tammany foisted bumbling old John Patrick O'Brien on the city as a stop...
...welcome the chance," said he, "to prove once again that Mr. Churchill has found a mare's nest. Practically every one of the statements he has just made are without foundation. . . . Because of the unfortunate effect it would have upon negotiations in progress in India between a Lancashire cotton mill delegation and Indian cotton interests regarding the problem of Japanese competition, the Lancashire delegation cabled the Manchester committee from India to change its evidence...
Many a plain U.S. citizen will linger over the snapshots of the last Republican and Democratic Conventions, will hoot with sudden delight at an action photograph of the Senate ("Ever seen a section of a termite nest under glass?"), will scratch his head over this group picture of the House of Representatives: ". . . Everywhere the closeset eyes full of lawyer's chicanery, the pursed, selfrighteous mouth drawn down at the corners, the flabby self satisfied jowl...
...novel as Dickens left it is a first-rate book stuffed with second-rate padding. Graves offered "no apologies for tampering with a reputed classic." The late Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, novelist and explorer, had written a continuation of Dombey & Son without stirring up a hornet's nest. But going on from where Dickens left off was not the same thing as doing Dickens' job over. Rewriter Graves further annoyed Dickensians by asserting that three out of four readers of Dickens' best-known books (David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist) know them only in abridged form...
...Nest of Simple Folk" is as carefully studied as a novel could well be. Almost every relevant aspect of Irish life is built about the brief scaffolding of a plot outlined above. The book as a whole reminds one forcibly of the fortunate position which the Irish writer enjoys. Sean O'Faolain belongs to a culture which has felt intensely the impact or modern social unheavals, and simultaneously enjoyed the revival of rich and ancient national culture. As an artist he has profited by the great achievement of James Joyce in creating a mature racial conscience, while as an individual...