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...Testament is not just a history book; it is a statement of philosophy, a piece of poetry, and the expression of a fundamental outlook on Man and the Unknown. But philosophy, poetry, and religion are clearer to some minds than to others; if they are to survive in our society, men must be found to explain them, to expound them, to give them life. At Harvard such a man has taken a Bible course, declining into dotage, inspired it with his own enthusiasm, chiselled it with his incisive mind, and made it one of the most popular and influential courses...
...hold, starboard side." Informed that in Uvalde, Tex. Vice President Garner had developed a kind of "magic seed" which might make grass grow under the trees on the White House lawn, the President asked him to send for some. At week's end, he made his attitude even clearer. Leaving Congress to struggle along in Washington, he boarded a train for Florida, there to embark on a week's fishing trip in the Caribbean. In the party that boarded the Potomac at Miami were WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Assistant Attorney General...
...kindlier version of life on the sod-house frontier than does Slo-gum House, which shows Gulla's successful villainy still ripening in her rotten old age. Overburdened with violence to a point that occasionally touches burlesque, Slogum House is nevertheless written with power, gives a clearer picture of the wild environment than of the people who fought to make it better or the ones, like Gulla, who tried to make it worse...
...days that they have been unable to form a Cabinet which can secure a majority in Parliament, last week amply showed his own feelings by asking van Zeeland to remain as Premier at least until the King returns from London. By then Belgian public opinion may have a clearer grasp of the issues-already this week prominent Socialists were agitating for van Zeeland to be formally reinstated as Premier-and the King may also call a general election. Although Rexist Degrelle is no doubt annoyed at his fascist failure to use the King, the handsome Rexist's loose mind...
...that the Communism or "Democracy" of Stalin "every month brings the Soviet state closer in essence to the fascist states of Italy and Germany," Mr. Lyons of the sweated East Side remains an apostle of radicalism. "The Leninist-Trotskyist-Stalinist methods of revolution . . . when history's record is clearer," will serve, he thinks, "chiefly as an object lesson how not to make revolutions...