Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modest Lincoln Day speech free from the blatant denunciations that too often feature attacks on the New Deal, Governor George D. Aiken of Vermont offered much sensible advice to his own party. And when he was through, he had made abundantly clear the reasons for its failure...
...Governor was not slow to give the New Deal credit for supplying much needed leadership. "Remember the people were hungry for leadership in those dark days of 1932 and 1933. Remember he (Roosevelt) gave it to them . . ." Aiken denounced the practice of appealing to the shibboleth of state's rights in the face of the need for government action...
Those who think of authors as being rent-free tenants of an ivory tower might be surprised at the list of well-known U. S. writers who have been glad to get on the WPA payroll: Poet Conrad Aiken, for example, who wrote the memorable description of Deerfield, Mass, in the Massachusetts State guide. Idaho director was impassioned, temperamental Novelist Vardis Fisher (In Tragic Life) who rushed out the 431-page Idaho guide ahead of all rivals, promptly started work on a comprehensive Idaho Encyclopedia, scheduled for publication this spring. For Louisiana the director was Novelist Lyle Saxon (Children...
Dissension. That even these cautious tactics could not prevent dissension was the best evidence that Republicanism, muddled and frustrated as it may be, still has plenty of political vitality. In far off Vermont, grey, bespectacled Governor George D. Aiken, who has been boomed by his New England neighbors as another budget-balancing Presidential possibility, took occasion to attack the party's present leadership and to demand, instead of a creed, an end to the age-old rotten borough representation of the South in Republican national conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from...
This is the fifth and final article in the series on the activities of Graduate School of Engineering, by Howard Aiken, Instructor in Physics and Communication Engineering...