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This represented a profound change in mood on Mr. Borah's part. Last year the great individualist opposed the cotton and tobacco control bills. But last year he made a mistake by being asleep at the political switch when AAA put a "compensatory" tax on jute sacking in which Idaho farmers bag their potatoes. This year he wishes to avoid mistakes, for next year he faces an election. Next year Mr. Brewster also faces an election and his constituency includes Aroostook County where, because of potato prices, the current relief bill is $100,000 a month and going...
Until now the business-men have been their own worst enemies. A rugged individualist with tears in his eyes is a sorry spectacle. When those whose interests are most vitally involved in the system of private enterprise can find no better defence of their beliefs than twaddle about liberty and Americanism, they must expect others to become slightly bored. The new tone is encouraging. Regardless of the New Deal majority in Congress one can expect more intelligent opposition in the future. Only by this means can the parliamentary system be saved...
Speaking on his views of religion and life, Bill Simpson, modern religious individualist, will address a meeting open to all students of the University at 7.30 o'clock this evening in Phillips Brooks House. The meeting will be open for discussion after the address...
...typical Harvard man of the future will have to go sculling down the Charles in a single every day if the number of men out for the individualist's sport continues to increase as it has in the last few years. The average number of men reporting daily for the sport this year promises to surpass by a considerable margin the previous all-time record made last year...
...well aware that the resemblance is meagre ("I am not like Dickens at all"), his latest book may well give the myth a wider circulation. Dickens' sideline was social sympathy; Author Priestley's English Journey, a lengthy digression into the economic back streets of his country, shows the same individualist concern over poverty and ugliness, the same little-English confidence that character will muddle through the worst economic mess...