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...Philosopher Dewey and all his works but simply one of Philosopher Dewey's points was suggested as a criterion whereby TIME readers might judge whether they wanted FORTUNE. The point: that "business" (or what Philosopher Dewey calls "technological industry") is the dominant characteristic of the present age. As authority for this quasi-philosophical observation, FORTUNE chose the man who has most frequently been called "greatest U. S. philosopher" although many another might have been used, as for example Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin who said (TIME, Oct. 14): "The entire globe is being embraced in a commercial order determined...
...century, which made the feudal land law of mediaeval England into a system which could go around the world in the 19th, and the time just after the Revolution when English Institutions and English legal doctrines were made over to conform to an ideal of American society by a criterion of applicability to American conditions...
...designated as front and the rear designated as, "Kentucky for Progress." The last motto is a standing joke among Kentuckians and many motorists have been fined for mutilating their tags to obliterate this sentiment. Likewise, the evolution law almost passed a few years ago. However, the motto is a criterion of an ignorance-ridden state. It is the 47th state in illiteracy-only one state being lower in the scales. ...* WARREN WHEELER...
Editors Note; The above letter from Mr. Lamb is perhaps a justification of the manifold activities of the information office; but in the defense cited, his figures and in general his argument is apparently based upon a technical criterion of quantity rather than actual value...
Herman Devries, Chicago Evening American: "The choir is the greatest of its kind in America, perhaps in the world." Frederick Ramig, Cleve- land Times: "Dr. Christiansen has the greatest vocal ensemble this country has ever heard. The St. Olaf Lutheran Choir is the criterion for all choirs." Richard Spamer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "In all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to St. Olaf." New York World: "Some two score youths and maidens from Northfield, Minn., put on immortality for approxi- mately one hour and thirty minutes last night at the Metropolitan Opera House...