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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ensuing Presidential and Congressional elections. If they attempt to throw the weight of the united organizations behind one of the major parties, they will alienate large numbers of their supporters. On the other hand, if they continue their present policy of remaining aloof from partisan issues, it is difficult to sec how the move can be checked. By organizing the electorate in the districts, by focussing attention on the attitude of the representative towards the Townsend Plan, they can exert a measure of power whose weight was vividly demonstrated by the Anti-Saloon League...
...from the superficial point of view. It consists of well-phrased "easy deductions," employment of striking adjectives and adverbs, rhetorical questions, subtlety that is not subtlety, at all, brevity that is not scholarly, and of innuendo to camouflage ignorance. In short, "smart writing" is attention to everything except the difficult task of weighting considerations and of truthfully appraising the proposition at hand...
...soundness. In so far as the two objectives are separable, but I had dared to suppose that they would recognize two facts that it takes only a little experience in scholarly writing to appreciate: First, that the more involved and the more abstract the subject matter is, the more difficult becomes the writing: Secondly, that the more thoughtful and balanced one tries to be in one's judgement, the less one can rely on sophisticated devices of writing techniques and hence the less crisp and the less "to be taken over a cup of coffee" becomes such writing...
...fancy by turning commonplaces into paradoxes by standing them on their heads; the latter requires only a bit of sophistry which comes easily. For my part, I heartily disapprove of attempts of English instructors to develop easy, flippant writing, when such an endeavor requires the turning away from the difficult and serious treatment of concepts not easy to evaluate and sometimes exceedingly complex, and the adoption of a sort of Heywood Broun style of writing...
...years after silica inhalations, the California Supreme Court last year declared that there is no time limit to bar a silicotic employe from bringing a damage suit against an employer. Industrial insurance companies immediately wanted to increase their rates. Operators of deep California gold mines, which are difficult to ventilate, would be obliged to pay $22.25 instead of the current $11 premium for every $100 they pay their men. Some mines of low-profit margin have already shut down. Others threaten to do so. Mineowners and miners, who face loss of employment, were last week beseeching California's insurance...