Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...moment. Some Democratic leaders who will control important blocks of delegates (outside of New York) in 1932 are Executive Committee Chairman Jouett Shouse, Senators Robinson of Arkansas, Harrison of Mississippi, Walsh of Massachusetts, Glass of Virginia (whom Ohio's Bulkley already knows well, having helped him write the Federal Reserve Act in the 63rd Congress) and Senator-elect Lewis of Illinois. Some Republicans who must not be overlooked are Ralph Williams of Oregon, "Tieless Joe" Tolbert of South Carolina. Perry Howard of Mississippi, Virginia's Bascom Slemp...
...observant foreign diplomat said privately afterward, "It was a wedding without the bride." What the Indian Round Table Conference can do is to rehash the Simon Report and another made last week by Viceroy Lord Irwin (see col. 3), write its own report, possibly agree on a draft text for a new Indian Constitution, finally present all this as a fait accompli to the Indian National Congress, Gandhi & Friends...
...over 50 books, more than a dozen plays. Born poor, he got little schooling, went to London at 21, became a solicitor's clerk. His first published piece was How a Bill of Costs is Drawn Up; his second appeared in the late great Yellow Book. Says he: ''I write for money." He makes a good income. Some of his books: Clayhanger (pr. "Clanger"), The Old Wives' Tale, Mr. Prohack, Riceyman Steps, The Grand Babylon Hotel, Milestones (a play...
...opposite as the poles of an electric cell are Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The nearer the parallel of their careers, the more emphatic the difference in the men. Last week Citizen Smith followed another turn in Citizen Coolidge's tracks, signed a contract to write a newspaper colyum. Under the probable heading "The State of the Nation," Colyumist Smith will write (beginning Jan. 4) for McNaught Syndicate between 1,000 and 1,500 words for each Sunday-the one day of the week when Colyumist Coolidge does not appear. He may discuss "politics or any other subject...
...Author. Niven Busch Jr., 27, was born with a pencil in his mouth, wrote good English before he could talk sense. Famed as a Princeton undergraduate for his versifying facility, like many literary Princetonians he never graduated, left college to write for TIME, of whose staff he is still a member. He also writes for The New Yorker under a thin disguise. Sandy-haired, slow-moving, slangy, like many a worse writer, like few better, he talks newspaper jargon...