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Limited Victory. When the subcommittees reported to the steering committee, the diehards reached their high-water mark, angrily amended the first article to eliminate the Lincolnesque phrase "of the people, by the people, for the people," kept only Sun Yat-sen's credo of government on the basis of "Three People's Principles." Screamed the middle groups: "Since only one party is enacting the constitution, who will hold the Assembly?" Carson Chang, boss of the Democratic Socialists, wired from Shanghai instructions that his delegation must not yield to the Kuomintang diehards on Articles...
Liberty, which will distribute through RKO, plans at least one picture a year from Capra, Wyler and Stevens. The company's published credo includes some sensationally un-Hollywooden notions. If its talented producer-directors can live up to these intentions, moviegoers are in for a glorious...
...world which has elevated its lack of principle to a philosophy, he brings a firm belief in principle. (He revealed his credo during his speech last week: "There is an injunction contained in the Constitution of Vermont. ... It calls for 'a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. . . .' ") An anti-New Dealer, he often refers to the flaming individualism of Vermont's Green Mountain Boys, some of whom were his ancestors...
...Livingstone credo: "The prior task of education is to inspire, and to give a sense of values and the power of distinguishing . . . what is first-rate from what is not." He restates his counsel of perfection in this month's Atlantic essay (originally a lecture at Toronto's Victoria College). Says he: "Always, soon or late, humanity turns to excellence as naturally as a flower turns to the sun: mankind crucifies Christ and kills Socrates, and they die amid derision and hatred; but in the end they receive the homage of the world. . . . To see the vision...
...Dewey did not fall very far. He took a crackerbox credo that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and made a philosophical system out of it. Nothing in science, politics or religion, he argued, must be accepted on say-so. Like the hunt-&-peck philosopher who put it on paper, Dewey's "pragmatism" was a hunt-&-peck philosophy...