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...poets because Editor Squire, if badgered awhile, paid real money for poems. The Mercury's eminence grew with well-phrased reviews, contributions by Hardy, Conrad, Shaw, Chesterton, essays on town planning, transport, education. But its circulation stayed around 4,000, disappointing Editor Squire, who once gave his credo...
...credo suited all but the most doctrinaire New Dealers. He said: "To tell you the truth, I think that I am really a pretty conservative fellow from the old school, perhaps a school too old to be remembered. I think that, from the point of view of the investors, the one safe, controlling and guiding stand should be conservative standards of finance-no monkey business...
...throw hand grenades, where women are regarded as breeding machines. Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on others what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that...
...until this performance that the chorus hit its peak. When Koussevitsky kissed his hand to the Radcliffe girls who successfully sang one of the most difficult works ever to be written, his beaming face acknowledged a splendid job of singing. The difficult fugues in the Gloria and Credo demanding all the resources of a chorus were done superbly, the tremendous crescendos throughout the work were breathtaking, and the total effect was to have more than one person in the audience limp form emotional exhaustion...
...working out exactly what he was, Mr. Arvin formulates a credo for democrats which is affirmative without being sentimental, sums it up best in Whitman's own language: "We've got a hell of a lot to learn yet, before we're a real democracy: we've gone beyond all the others, very far beyond some, but we're far from having yet achieved our dream. . . . We'll get there in the end: God knows we're not there...