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...Coudert (R-NY) said "self-determination" for dependent peoples is all right, but this will give Hawaii the opportunity "to exercise two senators worth of self-determination...
...A.L.P. and the C.I.O.'s P.A.C. They also retired Republican Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin, who had often voted with the New Deal and played a more sedate game of footy with the vociferous P.A.C. In Joe Baldwin's place they nominated State Senator Frederic R. Coudert Jr., a staunch conservative who had Governor Thomas E. Dewey's backing. In two other key New York City primaries, P.A.C.-backed candidates were also snowed under. Republicans were feeling good...
...poor cannot afford); and in the U.S. at large. There is Tammany Boss Croker, who, says Tutt, was no worse than Republican Boss Tom Platt. There is Mark Sullivan, who (in Bull Moose days) was a "semi-Socialist." When the Lusitania was sunk, only Tutt and Frederic R. Coudert Jr.* (at a meeting of 18 prominent attorneys) thought the U.S. should get into World War I. When Tutt asked Calvin Coolidge (whom he had known as a boy in Vermont) what it felt like to be President, Cal replied, after a Coolidge silence: "Well, you got to be mighty careful...
Since 1940 State Senator Frederic R. Coudert's Legislative Subcommittee has been chiefly noted for its efforts to wash out leftish teachers (TIME, Dec. 16, 1940; March 31, 1941). But in its new report the Committee advocated several left-of-center measures, wound up by citing Britain's welfare planner Sir William Beveridge: to get maximum war effort from citizens, make them feel that the Government is planning "a better world...
...take a holier-than-thou attitude? It's true, America can justly claim to be the most democratic world power, but there are ever-present threats within as well as without which demand a liberal dose of "eternal vigilance." What about Georgia's Governor Talmadge, the Dies and Rapp-Coudert committees, the hounding intolerance of the "justice" dealt out to Bridges and Browder? These are sinister ripples which could easily become a whirlpool of suppression. However fine the direction of Roosevelt's foreign policy, what about the hypocrisy and backhandedness of his means? What about the banning from the ballot...