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Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a sincere, plodding individualist who votes with the Progressives, of more than average intelligence, a man whose cumbersome mannerisms make him seem far duller than he is. He will not be unhappy if his constituency retires him to his beloved farm at Hoople. His term expires...
...ALTAR IN THE FIELDS-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($2.50). Last week nobody was much excited to learn that Ludwig Lewisohn had written another novel. A humorless and determined individualist, Author Lewisohn has gradually accustomed most U. S. readers to treat his output with restrained respect. A solemn harping on the string of self-expression, An Altar in the Fields tells nothing new about Lewisohn, life or love...
...half interest in a small lumber company. Lumber led to paper and paper to International Falls, where he organized his own bank, formed his own telephone company and, after James J. Hill refused to enter the territory, built his own railroads. A rugged individualist of the Ford school, he hates & fears the banker, denounces all curtailment agreements among newsprint makers as "restraints of trade." Last week when the banker regime in his old company pooh-poohed his libel suit, he said: "A $1 award means victory, vindication...
Social Characteristics: Henry: shy, reserved, a thorough individualist who shuns the public, father of one son. William: father of three children, a mixer, member of many lodges, organizer of Dearborn's fire department and traffic system, once the town's president-chief of police (dual office), fond of distributing nickels and dimes to children, generally known as "Bill'' or "Uncle Bill," who, content with life, has said he would not change places with Henry. Business: Henry: an unsuccessful inventor at 40, owner and operator of the largest automobile business in the U. S. at 60. William...
...sapient observer has observed, "becoming liberal to be conservative." So far has the New Deal shifted the fulcrum of U. S. politics that the old dividing line between Democrats and Republicans is today supplanted by a new line, less regular but more real, between Left and Right, collectivist and individualist, "new socialist" and "old capitalist." In viewing the present Congress, especially the Senate, it is noteworthy that the new liberal complexion derives not only from President Roosevelt but from the old "insurgent" Republicans or Progressives with whom, the old Democratic minority used to work. Out of line with all parties...