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SINCLAIR LEWIS has again taken a brief vacation from satirizing the various American types, which he pilloried so unmercifully in "Main Street," "Arrowsmith," and "Rabbitt" and written another amiable, un-irritative novel, comparable in spirit to "Mantrap...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 2/13/1934 | See Source »

...Carroll Benton Huntress of the National Coal Association, had addressed the gathering. Never before had the union boasted so many members (360,000), never before had so many delegates (1,700) attended a U. M. W. convention. There was a whole sea of new faces, delegates from areas hitherto un-unionized before the NRA coal code took effect. President Roosevelt, whose recovery program had raised every miner's pay check from 20% to 300%, was God-blessed as the greatest humanitarian since Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Miners Meet | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...week. But there'll be no quarter this time!" week. But Now that they had the "Kingfish" down, his many Louisiana enemies lost no time in trying to get him out. At the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans were 32 Federal in come tax investigators, sent by an un sympathetic Administration to probe Senator Long's finances. Two live slander suits pended against him in Washington and Baton Rouge. All eight Louisiana Congressional Districts were organizing anti-Long clubs. The scrappy Women's Committee of Louisiana retained General Samuel Tilden Ansell, dismissed prosecutor of the Senatorial investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: First Down | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

Cried Dr. Prentiss Wilson, Washington obstetrician: "The American Medical Association comes into the debate with un clean hands. It has refused as a political organization to study that which as a medical society it lists as one of the major problems confronting women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Controllers on Parade | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...adventures among the tramps of the English countryside, the down-&-outers of London, Jack Robinson really has two narrators: the unthinking but observant boy, the almost too reflective man he afterwards becomes. Without these sessions of sad, silent thought, Jack Robinson would be a straightaway racy tale, un hampered by moral or intellectual baggage, in the fine old tradition of Tom Jones itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Picaresque | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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