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...bribery, and corruption, which were exceptional only for the scale upon which they were operated, but since Mayor LaGuardia's inauguration the investigations have assumed a more serious aspect. The first tales about Welfare Island Prison were not surprising and in part were almost amusing, but now that Paul Blanshard has focused his attention upon the City Home for the Aged, the daily investigation reports are weighted with testimony of criminal neglect, cruelty, robbery, and assault...
...office of Commissioner of Accounts, with a roving assignment to snoop into the finances of all city departments, he appointed a onetime Socialist-editor of The Nation, Paul Blanshard, who has lately distinguished himself as director of a civic committee. As helper he will have a 31-year-old lawyer, Irving Ben Cooper, who became one of Samuel Seabury's favorite aids because he unearthed the sleazy Tammany stool pigeon whose trick was to make honest women look like prostitutes...
...Koenig as the undeniably unpleasant thug he is, chides Mr. La Guardia for camping among the enemy, even in the high mok-a-mok temp, and hints that Mr. Villard is relaxing too easily from his position of stern and examining rectitude. Possibly Mr. Villard is right, and Mr. Blanshard is right, in withdrawing support from the Socialist party as a "permanently defeated organization," and in preferring a temporary compromise to the awful alternative of seeing O'Brien untoppled, and his dispensation retained, but there is in Mr. Thomas' position far more dignity, far more of that contemptuous idealism which...
Socialist Paul Blanshard described conditions in "Socialopia" the day after the "revolution." An international government speaking an international language would control all battleships, airplanes, munitions, postal rates and currency. In the U. S., State lines would vanish and the President and Congress would be replaced by a national Socialist planning board. The Supreme Court ("nine old men consecrated to the mistakes of their forbears") would be scrapped. The State would enforce birth control. Working mothers would leave their young in a communal nursery in each apartment house...
...conference will close tomorrow with morning and afternoon services. At 9 o'clock, the representatives from each participating college will report on "Social Thinking in our Colleges". In addition there will be a report by Paul Blanshard, Field Secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy, under whose auspices the conference is being conducted. In the afternoon at 3 o'clock, Roland A. Gibson of Dartmouth will lead a student discussion on "What is Industrial Democracy...