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...when he had occasion to write the governor on other matters, he wo'tild preface his letters with the phrase, "Not about Silas Rogers." Kilpatrick wrote a series of cold, factual editorials on the case, deliberately avoided sensationalism for fear that Red-front groups would leap into the fray for propaganda purposes...
...Eager Amateurs. Clubs were mushrooming as never before. It was a big year for political amateurs. Both Ike and Adlai had inspired thousands of them to crowd, hot-eyed and eager, into the fray. Last week they were ringing doorbells, raising money, making speeches, ostentatiously smoking Eisenhower and Stevenson cigarettes and, in Texas, punching each other in the nose at cocktail parties. It was enough to make an old pol shudder. So was Dick Nixon's financial "striptease," which had set candidates about the doleful business of disclosing the catalogue of their worldly goods...
...keep the politically-minded informed the Crimson ran a daily column called, "The Campaign at Harvard." Charges and counter charges from the newly-organized Lafollette-Wheeler Club and the Old Guard Republican Organization furnished steady entertainment for undergraduates. Even President-emeritus Eliot entered the fray by taking over the leadership of the John W. Davis League which was stumping for the Democratic nominee. In a college straw vote poll Collidge's national victory was anticipated as he won by a two to one margin...
...life, however, he at least practiced what he preached. He was an old-fashioned liberal who was never afraid to act. He worked tirelessly in behalf of the poor of Hull House, or crusaded for Sacco and Vanzetti, or thrust himself to the forefront of the fray wherever he spotted a Cause. "As the philosopher has received his problem from the world of action," he once wrote, "so he must return his account there for auditing and liquidation." Last week, John Dewey. long ill in his Manhattan apartment, finally settled his account. At 92, he left the world still growing...
...Christman: "Well, you take Truman, when he went into office he made many promises. For instance: one thing the presstrill and taxes with the nextren. of intramat, to make payment for the fray-sted or less than other Presidents, didn't he?" Lady: "Well, at the time he got into office, he thought he could do all the things he said he could. Then he found out he couldn't. It wasn't all up to him, either." Christman: "But he did make the definite statement that when he traysnod the vaus, and snapid for the boys...