Word: brogans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusion after making my study is that since 1860 American history has been written at the dictation of a victorious sectional Republican party, which as Mr. Denis W. Brogan says in his Government of the People, has never been a National party, either in theory or fact...
...page of the Tuesday "American" carries a cartoon depicting Uncle Same deaf to the entreaties of two sharp-nosed individuals labelled conspicuously "Meddler" and "Busybody". Page 5 of the same issue prints the headline "Attack on constitution taught Harvard students" There follows a garbled but strong criticism, of Harold Brogan's "Government of the People", the text now in use in Government 1: of Professor Holcombe; and of Professor Laski, the author of the foreword. All are accused of spreading subversive and communistic doctrines among the students...
...little though and what is infinitely more important it boosts circulation, brings the pennies rolling in and entices fat advertizing accounts. Though Harvard has withstood and can go on withstanding meddling on the part of ignorant and ill advised critics, it cannot hold out against deliberate and premeditated falsification. Brogan criticizes the constitution from an English scholar's point of view: he does not spread red propaganda...
Lola Jean Harlow Space Lee Tracy Pops Frank Morgan Gifford Middleton Franchot Tone Brogan Pat O'Brien Mac Una Merkel Junior Ted Healy...
...calling himself "Brogan the Scribe," and by patronizing an unknown publisher, the author of the "Outline of Heaven" has probably furnished his work with an insuperable handicap. That was all very unnecessary, and it makes one doubt the good sense of the writer, for the book is in other regards quite a commonplace and respectable offering. It is an imaginative, but never too imaginative, account of heaven. Like all accounts of heaven it presents the famous rogues and scoundrels who might conceivably be found in heaven, all of whom, as usual, appear a little stiff and formal and uncomfortable under...