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Professor Frankfurter has been actively identified with this creative process since he first came to Harvard in 1911. It is more imperative that this shall go forward than that the courts be filled with liberal judges. It is fortunate that he has chosen to stay at Harvard and continue to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR FRANKFURTER | 9/24/1932 | See Source »

What distinguishes our age from preceding ones is that "the masses are in revolt," determined to take the world into their own hands. The commonplace has become tyrannical. In former times "the masses asserted no right to intervene in [government] ; they realized that if they wished to intervene they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Today's Tyrant | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

*Most people acquire immunity to infantile paralysis by the time they become adult.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Philadelphia Paralysis | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

5) Gradually the Government would acquire large private enterprises, by condemnation and purchase. Owner-managers would be put on a reduced salary as technicians.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Repeal Unemployment! | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Old Mrs. Harris lived obscurely in her daughter's house, baking cakes and sleeping on a rickety settee. This state of affairs bothered the neighbors who thought Mrs. Templeton might treat her old mother more generously. It did not greatly disturb Mrs. Harris or Mrs. Templeton. Old Mrs. Harris remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Short Cathers | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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