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...mystification? A liberal is a man who believes in the increasing freedom of the individual in relation to his government. Sample: Franklin Roosevelt. A conservative is a man who is opposed to change in existing institutions, harking back to some previous condition (Free Trade) for his standard in judging the present. Sample: Walter Lippmann. A reactionary contemplates some fundamental change in the status quo in order to recover the supposed advantages of institutions that have disappeared. Samples: French monarchists, Southerners who believe in slavery, Dorothy Thompson. . . . EDWARD MCARDLE Toronto...
...first appearance on the White House scene, septuagenarian Mr. Ford was trying out Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' bullet-proof Lincoln. With Mr. Ford on a breeze through the tortuous roadways of Rock Creek Park were his son Edsel and two Washington correspondents, Clifford Prevost of the Detroit Free Press and Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit News. Both Mr. Prevost and Mr. Hayden have developed excellent news contacts with Ford Motor Co., and they later were to serve as the only authoritative reporters of a historic two hours in the life of Mr. Ford and in the Administration...
LONDON--Winston Churchill, who as Minister of Colonies in 1922 signed the treaty recognizing the Irish Free State, tonight assailed Prime Minister Eamon De Valera of Ireland as a man who might "strike Britain in the back" in time of war. Churchill, attacking the Irish leader on the floor of the House of Commons, said that "dark forces of the Irish underworld tried to strike us in the back" during the World War "and there are still dark forces at work in Ireland now." In event of war, he added, Ireland might remain neutral or demand "the whole of Ireland...
...internal strife, followed by an open break in the ranks of organized medicine as represented by the American Medical Association, has focussed public attention sharply on the rising costs of hospital care for the medically indigent. A large section of our population depend for their medical care on the free clinics which the majority of metropolitan hospitals run. As a result of the increasing specialization in medicine the expense of operating these clinics has doubled. The small group of doctors who precipitated the rift felt that the present policies of the Association would never solve the problem of financing...
Denying rumers that he was that way about Shirley Temple, the seven-year old Terror insisted that he was entirely fancy free. But when Radcliffe girls were mentioned, he frothed at the month...