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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agree with Reader Smith that we should strive to give Mr. Hitler generations of free advertising by incorporating his name into our language. . . . It seems to me that the suggested word "hitler" savors too much of yielding, because of temporary emotion, to the childish impulse to "call names.". . . If I want to do something along that line, why not incorporate the word "Munich," using it to signify "a bloodless coup achieved by bad faith, trickery and deceit...
...Miss Stevens, who was once sprung from the District of Columbia jail by Dudley Field Malone* after suffrage-picketing of the White House, holds that women are created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
...pact and the consequent reaction against the U. S. S. R., in which Franklin Roosevelt shared last week (see p. 15). The Browder speech last week was the first realistic thing which he and his party have done since the Stalin & Hitler marriage of convenience. But Browder and friends, free again to take up their old cries of international class war, down-with-capitalism, etc., were not in an altogether happy position. To portray Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime as the flower of revolutionary socialism will be as tough a thesis as it was to maintain for four years...
...Morss Lovett, Government-Secretary of the Virgin Islands, a New Republic editor for 18 years; Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, the rival (74-year-old) liberal intellectual journal that looked exactly like the New Republic to outsiders, very different to liberal intellectuals. Present also were contributors, constant readers, free traders, isolationists, progressive educators, single taxers, practicing Marxists, disillusioned Marxists, poets, professors, publishers, all who believe themselves to be liberals, all who thus claim to fit into a category that nobody has satisfactorily defined...
Despite the fact that these lines fly mostly at night, usually in filthy weather, over terrain which alternates fantastic Chinese-print mountains with treacherous rice-paddy terraces, they have had no serious accidents which were not brought on by Japanese guns. Because traditional modes of transportation in free China-oxcart, ass, camel, over miserable roads-are unbearably slow, and because trucks so often break down in Chinese hands, these lines are so heavily booked that some passengers have to wait a month for a seat. The planes are always filled to maximum capacity. Eurasia flies Junkers...