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...concerning democratic equality. Says he: "This dogma is now breaking down under the blows of the experience of the nations. It is, therefore, unnecessary to insist upon its falseness. But its success has been astonishingly long. How could humanity accept such faith for so many years? The democratic creed does not take account of the constitution of our body and of our consciousness. It does not apply to the concrete fact which the individual is. Indeed, human beings are equal. But individuals are not. The equality of their rights is an illusion. The feeble-minded and the man of genius...
...drawing a creed, not a pla-form," declared Harrison Earl Spangler, Republican National Committeeman from Iowa and one of the promoters of the convention...
Before the delegates were all assembled it was apparent that they would have no trouble in writing their creed. As they dropped off the train, one after another cried, as if with a common inspiration: "Save the Constitution...
...Kline explained that the League aimed to serve "the needs of working-class audiences for plays unlike the theatrical marshmallows served up on Broadway which deal with problems quite as remote from the workers' lives as peculiar Park Avenue triangles and Hollywood infidelities." While officially professing no political creed, most League member theatres leaned inevitably toward Socialism. Membership was usually composed of unemployed or partly employed industrial workers not only in big centres like Chicago and Cleveland but in smaller manufacturing cities like Moline, Ill. and Gary, Ind. Not infrequently the shirt-sleeved amateurs went to the theatre after...
...months to maintain their gold standard has reached heroic proportions. Their inflationary experience of a little over a decade ago convinced them that a decision to devaluate is nothing short of an invitation to disaster, a voluntary walking of the plank. It's much more than a political creed; it's a national frame of mind, the result of bitter experience...