Word: shrillest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compare favorably with the minor novels of Sholom Asch. The worst that can be said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years' incredible persecution for his faith. Escaping to Russia, he is arrested, exploited, tortured...
...benefit to the thousands of investors in the bonds & securities of the railroad and in the general public interest." Then he swung into a discussion of the "masses"-or what Franklin Delano Roosevelt calls "the forgotten man" in his political orations.* Rasped General Dawes at his sharpest and shrillest: "It's the mass attitude that controls and. this mass attitude is changing from pessimism to optimism. Take a look at agriculture and the ordinary business of the country and compare them with the picayunish antics on the New York Stock Exchange. The whole country, it seems, is watching...