Word: credited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modest man so I wouldn't want to take the credit for it," said Gilbert Pattan, author of the numerous "Frank Morriwell" stories, "but it is a fact that enrollment at Yale has increased since Frank first entered those hallowed halls...
Rubenstein in his vigorous sketches has caught every activity of the miners and has portrayed it faithfully and realistically. It is to his great credit that, unlike most modern artists who are concerned with industrial scenes such as here, Rubenstein avoids any speculation on the hard lot of the workers and refuses to do any false propagandizing to improve their lot. He treats his subjects straightforwardly and takes the good and the bad alike as they come along...
Manifesto on which the La Follette Progressive Party proposed to unite was summarized in five points which called for: 1) public "ownership and control of money and credit"; 2) restoring "to every American the absolute right to earn his living by the sweat of his brow"; 3) granting "the Executive branch power to get things done . . . with ample guarantees against . . . abuse of such power"; 4) security for "those who work on the farm and in the city . . . measured by ... contribution"; 5) no more "coddling or spoon-feeding . . . restore to every American the opportunity to help himself. After that...
Phil La Follette's points obviously did not add up to a clear-cut set of governmental principles. His one pass at an economic technicality, the brief proposal of Government control of credit, was nowhere amplified. At very least it would mean nationalization of the Federal Reserve banks. At most, it would mean nationalization of the entire banking system. But when he waded into his speech, Phil La Follette spread himself enthusiastically and, to many a listener, compellingly over half the isms in the social and political dictionaries...
...actually it was the American Civil Liberties Union and the Workers Defense League, rather than the A.N.P.A., who had aided Mrs. Lovell. But the Committee on Freedom of the Press, headed by Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was willing to take part of the credit. Claiming similarities between the Supreme Court decision and "the briefs and arguments" presented in cases involving newspapers, the committee arrived at the conclusion that the Lovell decision "should silence those people who have been pretending that our long battle to maintain freedom of the press has been a selfish effort...