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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white hope of good Republicans everywhere is now living quietly on his chicken farm in the country. "Mrs Landon is doing pretty well with her chickens, selling six or-seven dozen eggs a day." But one morning the man who wanted to be President could not find an egg in the house for an early breakfast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Landon Never Heard of Hicks; Pleased by Pennsylvania Vote | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...critical reader will find this part more difficult to swallow. Altogether too glib is Mr. Hicks' defense of the U. S. S. R. in which he admits that the right to criticize the government, the right to advocate a change of government have been denied the Russian people, and adds: "these are not rights that many people want." His Utopian conception of a Communist America is a little naive, and his blithe disregard for minority rights and the law of the land is sometimes disturbing...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

Nevertheless, "I Like America" is not a book that can be tossed aside. The problems raised are vital. Those of us who would hesitate to set up a Communist regime must find another solution, for few will disagree with Mr. Hicks that "there is a great deal in America that no decent person can afford to like...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...view to determining its possible benefit in courses as well as divisional examinations. Next year some improvement could be effected, even though it is too late in the current season to benefit the Class of 1938. And the quarter hour can also be used by those who can find nothing better to do as an interim of pious prayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME FOR THOUGHT | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

...number of men, not admitted, but "ineligible." How can a University boasting a liberal point of view condone a system of education which segregates the poorer students, so that they may steep together (sic) in their intellectual inertia? Is not the House just the place where they might find the stimulation they need through contact with students of other intellectual levels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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