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...assure this, and his pronouncements and publications have made it plain. At a time when the social and economic structure is being continually altered, there is room for jurists who have an eye to the whole scene and are not bound too closely by tradition. Professor Frankfurter is an idealist and an enthusiast, who will not confine himself to more defense of the status quo; that he is endowed with the judicial temperament is to be doubted. He will, however, collaborate with six other justices, with whose opinions, doubtless, he will frequently express dissent. In this over-worked court, criticized...
...which to be disappointed, inevitably." Among men's fictive compensations Author Wescott considers most notorious Literature,whose contemporaneous practitioners contend to be social mouthpieces, rather than rulers and revealers as of old; old-fashioned ideas about sex ("Childlessness is a virtue now, though probably the humblest"); the idealist religion of "God-beside-the-point...
Nepotism, Nerves. The House next declined to suspend Saturday half-holidays for Government workers (savings lost: $9,000,000), to abolish the Army & Navy transport service (savings lost: $2,000,000), to withdraw Federal aid from State vocational training schools (savings lost: $8,500,000). When a political idealist named Mouser from Ohio proposed that Congressmen strike their idle relatives from the clerk hire payroll, he was howled down (8840-40) by a membership addicted to nepotism. So excited became the sessions that members loudly complained of "ragged nerves," begged for a recess...
...Moon in the Yellow River. The fifth production of the Theatre Guild's fourteenth season is concerned with revolution in post-Revolutionary Ireland and with Life. A power plant is wrecked, an idealist is shot and therefore a man somehow becomes reconciled to his daughter. The connection between these dramatic entities lies solely in the fact that they occur on the same stage, and weary first-nighters could heartily concur in the German engineer's observation that "this isn't a country, it's a debating society." The uniform worn by a commandant of Free State...
...Presidential candidacy of the late Robert Marion La Follette, thus disregarding the non-partisan pledge of the Federation's first constitution. Samuel Gompers did not even get his own candidate into the A. F. of L.'s presidency. Instead it fell into the hands of an idealist...