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...Congress: He is a vehement individualist, voting his own convictions, following no one. leading no one. The Western insurgents can count on him no more than can the Old Guard. He plumes himself on his Progressivism, yet he is narrowly nationalistic to the core. When he entered the Senate he promptly enlisted in the "Battalion of Death" against the Versailles Treaty. Because like many another Californian he hates & fears Japan, he believes in the biggest possible Navy for the U. S. and therefore fought the London Naval Treaty (1930) almost singlehanded. He dislikes all foreign powers, suspects them of sinister...
...error in direction" in human endeavor and the admission that there is "something rotten in the system,"--in spite of his final conclusion that "there is nothing intrinsically wrong with our system"--Mr. Lindley shows that he is not 100 per cent sold on President Hoover's individualist philosophy of government. He gives no evidence, however, that he realizes the fundamental conflict between the Hoover philosophy and some form of the collectivist philosophy. Without the realization of what this conflict implies and a struggle with the problem involved, neither Mr. Lindley nor any others of the younger generation will achieve...
...between the two types of competition! Both tend to foster equality of opportunity. Both help to keep the society in which they exist from becoming stratified. In both the goal is an immediate and definite one, the dividends make their appearance early. The campus "big shot" and the "rugged individualist" of business have much in common...
...patrolled the roads to preserve peace. Most nonstriking farmers were persuaded to retreat peacefully; a few succeeded in rushing the blockade. Two freight trains were temporarily held up. Most of Sioux City lived out of cans. But the Holiday failed to up prices. The average farmer is an intense individualist whom even the Federal Farm Board has failed to organize fully into cooperatives. Many an Iowa producer out of sympathy with Agitator Reno's strike shipped his stuff by rail to unaffected markets elsewhere. Thus, though Sioux City's daily hog receipts fell from...
...optimist, filled with a tremendous and awful faith in the possibilities of man. Yet the flaws of human contrivance did not escape him: he shunned Bronson Alcott's Brook Farm, not from a lack of interest, but because the communal ideal was repugnant Emerson was an individualist. Intellectually the quiet minister of Concord was a swashbuckler whose doctrine his neighbors feared, but "the tone was so well-bred withal that much dangerous doctrine was overlooked for the manner of the presentation." Such was the man who swayed rustic and school-girl, scrub-woman and Thomas Carlyle: now he rests ignored...