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...John Dewey, Sweden's Sven Hedin, Japan's Y. Okakura. Small, spectacled, fair-haired, with a tight-lipped mouth like the late Calvin Coolidge's. from which purrs an endless stream of speech, 45-year-old Missionary Ogden is no fanatic but a scholarly enthusiast. Though he is a preacher of simplified language, he is capable of horrendous complexities, as when he writes about James Joyce's Work in Progress as: "intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation . . . oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse . . . clangorous calembour . . . kaleidoscopic recamera . . . logophilous Birth-trauma . . chronic serial extension
Other witnesses who have agreed to appear in Washington to explain their views include Father Charles E. Coughlin, Irving Fisher, Yale professor and "commodity dollar" advocate, Frank A. Vanderlip, former New York banker and Technocracy enthusiast, and James P. Warburg '17, Manhattan banker...
...excitement incident to Repeal, everyone has neglected one time-tried branch of home industry, to wit, the moonshine trade; the rugged enthusiast in the bathtub, alone, of all the people, has seen the light. The solution of our ills is to encourage the moonshiner, the mountaineer, and his bootleg brand; he should be allowed to issue his product under a special tax, microscopic in dimensions, and should be praised for his simple, homespun way of living and working; he should be glorified in poem and ballad, and should develop a tried and true clientele of drinkers hardy enough to withstand...
...those who back it once more came under critical discussion. First speaker was Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. No. i Inflationist of Congress. Next House Speaker Rainey flayed Hard Moneyman Sprague for flouncing out of Washington as a presidential ad- viser. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, ex-banker and onetime enthusiast for Technocrat Howard Scott, burbled his delight at the President's monetary experiment. To answer them up rose the fourth and last speaker, James Paul Warburg. 37-year-old vice chairman of the Bank of The Manhattan Co., himself no monetary conservative, who from March 4 to midsummer stood closest...
...that old devil Harvard indifference steals in and makes a Hamlet of every possible enthusiast by whispering "Let someone else do it." One vicious little idea prevents any concrete accomplishment. So the CRIMSON, to end a worn-out issue and to fulfil a traditional role as leader of undergraduate intellectualism presents a plan for action. If anyone is seriously interested in the matter, he is urged to form a committee, proselytize, secure if possible a patroness as generous and energetic as the French films have had, and so to set up the machinery for presenting the films...