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...former editor of The New Republic. In 1932 he strove in company with the League of Professional Groups to elect Communist William Z. Foster President. Outside of this, his firsthand experience of President-making is small. But what he lacks in experience he makes up in learning and distrust...
...distrust begins with Republicans. Heywood Broun had a story about his Republican grandmother, who, when told that raging floods were sweeping New England, snapped: "Democrats!" While never entirely absolving the Democrats when anything goes wrong, Josephson is more inclined to snap: Republicans! First Republican President maker in this book, which covers the period from 1896 to 1919, is Marcus Alonzo Hanna, the Ohio boss credited with electing McKinley and coming the expression: Stand pat! Second Republican President maker is Roosevelt I, who in so far as McKinley's assassin did not make him President, made himself President. He also...
...nonce the Faculty seems alive to what is going on," Ross writes, "and it appears unlikely that mass dismissals can recur. The demoralization among the younger men has not been alleviated, however. Frankly and simply, they distrust President Conant ... the will of President Conant is frankly suspect...
With this view Ernest Simmons, onetime Harvard professor and biographer (1937) of Byronic Poet Alexander Pushkin, has little patience. Simmons denies the widespread notion that Siberian exile altered the thought and method of "one of the most original novelists in world literature." Dostoevski's originality combined 1) his distrust for Western European culture; 2) his belief in feeling against reason; 3) his expert, unprecedented child psychology; 4) his caustic satire, especially of radicals in The Possessed; 5) his great character types-the Meek, the Double, the Self-Willed...
Some others distrust the change but few Americans can distrust the spirit with which Editor White outlines the job of his Committee after the war is over, win, lose or draw: "We shall try then to give to American youth the same joy and enthusiasm for freedom of speech, peaceful assemblage, free conscience, trial by jury and the benefits of personal freedom that the Germans have put into their youth by teaching them national pride, race arrogance, and international hatred. We be lieve this is our really big job, bigger than saving Britain as our first line of defense...