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...Harrison* he had made some money during the recess. 3) That he may have read press comments on his speeches. 4) That he may have felt "a belated sense of futility." 5) That he believes it impossible to compete with Senator Blease for the title of chief Democratic demagog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSCLE SHOALS: Something Doing | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...evolve a finance bill, of any sort acceptable to Parliament, which would produce the revenues indispensable to the state (TIME, March 8 et ante.) As the week closed, an ominous prophecy flew about Paris: "Eh bien! Now we shall have a Dictator or a Soviet or some wizard-demagog like M. Caillaux. Tant pis! So much the worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Briand Falls | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...change which came over the country with the advent of Mussolini is little short of miraculous. He did not promise or give advantage to any one class. He called upon and demanded of all classes that they work together for the good of the nation. He is neither a demagog nor a reactionary. He is a patriotic realist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fascismo Trionfante | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...this man a Moses, fitted to lead the people out of a wilderness which is his own creation, only? Is he of the George Washington type, as counsel would have you believe ? Is he not rather of the all too familiar charlatan and demagog type?like Alcibiades, Catiline, and except for a decided difference in poise and mental powers in Burr's favor, like Aaron Burr? He is a good flyer, a fair rider, a good shot, flamboyant, self-advertising, wildly imaginative, destructive, never constructive except in wild non-feasible schemes, and never overly careful as to the ethics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Guilty | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...demagog and a pedagog wrote a prolog for a catalog. When thru, tho, they recited the Decalog in the thorofare." Thus would it be written by members and followers of the Simplified Spelling Board, which held its 19th annual meeting, last week, in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Simple | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

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