Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Instead of spending till it hurts let every man who did not readjust in 1920 balance his books, write off his losses, take bankruptcy if necessary, squeeze the water from his company and hold his employes in service until it hurts. (This last is especially applicable to the railroads.) With our feet again on solid ground we can begin to climb safely. We have had quite enough of mental suggestion and absent treatment-let us rather call in old Dr. Adam Smith.* JOHN E. FIELD...
...book has aroused so much discussion in the South since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Some of the people approve it- particularly the women. But others violently disapprove it. One man, a professor in Louisiana State University, said: "I don't see how a southern man could write such a book." . . . Ada Jack Carver, winner of several Harper prizes in the past few years told me ''It is a book that one does not know exactly how or where to place, but it is a book that will make history." And while talking...
...monster British speed rival to Germany's Bremen and Europa was the matter of insurance. Insurance companies in the U. S. and Britain, boat-shy since the mysterious $3,000,000 fire on the Europa (TIME, April 8, 1929), were either too poor or too nervous to write a $30,000,000 policy. Last week the British treasury and the Board of Trade came to the rescue. They agreed to underwrite that margin of insurance on the great Cunarder's construction which cannot be accommodated in the ordinary market, not as a government subsidy but as an unemployment...
...happy day for Cowboy James when he sent in his first story, with pictures by himself, to Scribner's Magazine. It was accepted. He decided he had had enough cowpunching, that it would be more satisfying to write about it and draw pictures to match...
...sports writer should let himself go, he ought to be able to write a good novel about his macrocosmic world. Few have; but Sports-Writer Tunis proves it can be done. Though he plays tennis and has appeared in tournaments, Author Tunis is no match for Racketeer William Tatem Tilden II on the court; but he has taken the same theme which recently lured Tilden into writing a novel (TIME, June 23) and has defeated him in straight love sets...