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...sequel to The Rebel Generation, she has prefaced this book with a revealing but formidable genealogical table. Good and caustic when it comes to describing a family anniversary, Novelist Van Ammers-Kuller in her feminist vein gets almost committee-womanish. She started to write before she was 20, quit when she married, began again when her two boys were safe in school, her husband director of the Leyden gas works. Other translated books: Tantalus, The House of Joy, Jenny Heysten's Career...
Confirmed by St. George's in his leader ship, Stanley Baldwin stands to be further strengthened, perhaps this week, by the rumored decision of Sir John Simon to quit the Liberal Party and join the Con servative. Next to David Lloyd George, Sir John is the leading Liberal. Should he desert, Mr. Lloyd George was expected last week to throw in his lot with James Ramsay MacDonald, enter a formal "Lib-Lab Coalition Cabinet." Mr. MacDonald, for obvious reasons, was understood to want Mr. Lloyd George to take the minis try concerned with unemployment. But the Welshman continues to fancy...
...cinema are faithfully reproduced from the play's stage version. The scene, which changes rarely through the picture, is the press room of a "Mythical Kingdom's" criminal courts building. Eight reporters are gathered to report the execution of a murderer. Hildy Johnson, the reporter who wants to quit his job, is just leaving when the murderer escapes from jail and makes his way into the press room through a window. Overcome by the opportunity for a scoop, Hildy Johnson hides the murderer in a rolltop desk, stays to write the story.? Finally the murderer is reprieved, Hildy Johnson...
Soon H. R. H. had won 5,000 pesos, gradually rolled his winnings up to 27,000 pesos, then rolled them down again to 420 pesos when he quit at 5:30 a. m. Thus in two hours H. R. H. had netted $50.40, about 4% on his original investment...
...Leon! Trotzky's history of the Russian Revolution . . . was to have been published April i and obviously he would not have quit work on it unless he was thoroughly incapacitated," said Mr. Trotzky's representative in Berlin. Few days later, despatches from Istanbul told that sick Leon Trotzky & wife were awakened 'by fire in their home on Prinkipo Island, near Istanbul, and narrowly escaped in their nightclothes. The home burned to the ground, with it all Trotzky's books and papers (including copies of. all the official documents which passed through his hands...