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...that same election, Republican Congressmen were elected from California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and many other States. Nobody made the preposterous suggestion at that time that the New Deal was waning because a Republican Congressman was elected in California. Why this sudden change of thought? Maybe the reactionary, diehard, GOP Tories expect us to carry every State in the Union for Roosevelt in 1936, elect 435 Democratic Representatives, and 32 Democratic Senators before they finally admit defeat...
...Approved 239-to-62 the Linlithgow India Report already approved by the Commons (TIME, Dec. 24), thus providing His Majesty's Government with a full mandate to draft its own act giving India more liberal status. In highly premature alarm, the Marquess of Salisbury, a Tory diehard, accused the Government of intending to grant India full Dominion Status, "the ideal of Gandhi...
...KNOW YOU WILL DO A GOOD JOB AND THAT YOU WILL PROVE TO A LOT OF OLD FASHIONED DIEHARD HALF MUMMIFIED PROFESSORS AND OTHER SUPPOSED TO BE EDUCATORS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT BY THE USE OF PICTURES AND RADIO YOU CAN RE-EDUCATE MANY MILLIONS. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE THEATRES ALL ENTERPRISING THEATRES WILL WORRY...
...worth his salt can close his eyes to it. Many a "proletarian novel" is rightly thrown out of the literary court as mere advertising for the Communist cause; but the literary sergeants-at-arms will think twice before they begin hustling Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty. Though diehard right-wingers will call it propaganda, most readers will find it troubling, critics of all stripes will pronounce it a first-rate novel. As social criticism, The Land of Plenty will rouse plenty of disagreement, but as a tragically true story of human beings it will hit home to most...
There would be little progress without a group of radicals to speed up diehard conservatives and reactionaries. Washington and Lincoln were more radical than any present-day student has the brains to be; half the good writers are radical, and nine-tenths of the good professors. If the U.C. editors want to pick on liberals, they can find a long list of them...