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...right direction. Was "a first-rate poet spoiled to make a third-rate revolutionary?" Was John Reed simply a little more highly-flavored liberal than the run of his friends, who had just a little more adventurousness and a little more guts, so that he went the whole hog instead of signing up for Creel's Committee for Public Information? Was he sinsere or was he just too romantic to be sensible...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/26/1936 | See Source »

This disclosure of judicial integrity was the result of a clever bit of sleuthing by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Last month that Michigan Republican began to display an inordinate curiosity about AAA's big beneficiaries. Who, he asked, was the cotton grower who received $168,000, the hog-raiser who received $219,825, the Puerto Rican sugar producer who received $961,064? In the Senate he offered a resolution requiring the Department of Agriculture to furnish a complete list of those ''farmers" who had received $10,000 or more in AAA benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Something for Nothing | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Since the outright abolition of interest is a major tenet of Social Credit, Alberta was evidently not yet prepared to go the whole Social Credit hog. This came as no surprise to Social Credit's founder, British Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, who has also washed his hands of Alberta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Refinance & Raptures | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...illustrate. I understand the average corn-hog benefit payment in Iowa is under $400. But I know, for example, about one corn-hog contract in another State where the beneficiary was paid $219,825 in two years for not raising 14,587 hogs on 445 acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curiosity on Checks | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...Lionel Barrymore) would not allow used for his lady-dog. He believed in general that a dog was as good a friend as a man, except that it had none of a man's faults. When an interloper (Dudley Digges) circled his sheep pasture with woven-wire fence, hog-tight, bull-strong, and horse-high, Spring held him for an enemy although his own son Benjy (Eric Linden) loved the interloper's daughter, Camden (Maureen O'Sullivan). One night of good hunting, a dog's pain-yip in the dark and a trail of Bugle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

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