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...matter of fact, utterly simple. The Republican prosperity bubble, thoroughly exploded, has undoubtedly proved the downfall of the party in power. The Democrats, headed by Roosevelt, will bridge the arid canyon with a wet plank; Prosperity is bound to return; the farmers are to receive their aid; freer trade will, however, be advocated; Americans will live happily ever after, after. The same tone of reasoning is in the opposing propaganda, which, however, reaches the same results by the high rather than the low road. Hoover, of course, was not the cause of the depression; Prosperity is bound to return...
...recently announced plan, will omit even midyears, and hold three reading periods at different times during the college year. At the opposite extreme stand those courses demanding weekly or biweekly tests, and sometimes even section meetings during a reading period. Both plans have advantages, but those of the freer course are more desirable...
...followed already existing types: the War novel, the postWar. But after reading The Road Back you feel as you may have felt after reading All Quiet: that the subject has now been adequately covered, that the controversy may now cease. The language in The Road Back is a little freer than in the U. S. edition of All Quiet; the publishers say it is unexpurgated. If the book comes into household usage, two of the five famed unprintable Anglo-Saxon words will be started on the climb to respectability...
...tutelage of government, fell under the tutelage of the masses." No defense for the yellow newspaper and the tabloid could Editor Lippmann find on the ground that "it gives the public what it wants." Rather he saw its only justification in that it gave the U. S. a press "freer from hidden control than any in the world." At the same time he judged that it was slowly, surely destroying itself and making way for a new, informative journalism. Said he: "The object [of the yellow paper] is not to report events in their due relationships. ... It selects from...
...consented to take one. As for his anti-Smith expenditures, he said he had not made a full report on them because he did not know whence they all came. To the rumor that he was close to large public utility interests, he retorted: "There's no man freer from water power interests than I am. I've had no personal nor professional relationships. ... I have a deep and abiding interest, though not much information, about the subject...