Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flew to Libya, the other to a grove at Dodona in Greece. In the grove the latter proclaimed in human words the need for an oracle of Zeus on that spot...
...greatest show on earth, which this year has featured only shadow-boxing and windy dialogue. Frustrated progressives have two courses open to them: to cut loose and form a third party, or to try to capture one of the two major parties. They succeeded in doing the latter in 1936, but in the last two years the roles of master and servant have been reversed. Labor and liberals have entered into a Babylonian captivity from which they must escape; not up the blind alley to which John L. Lewis has pointed, but along a bolder course...
...East brought Europe one step closer to the solid bloc which would constitute the New Order-a pan-Europe which the Axis hopes can defy Britain's blockade and turn it against the blockaders* The alignment of France and Spain, the former in supine collaboration, the latter with willing spirit but feeble body, would make possible an all-out attack soon on the Western Mediterranean. This week German troops were reported crossing the Pyrenees packed in trucks. Penetrators in obvious cheap mufti had long been reported in Spain. Clearly the attack...
...polls tomorrow, the choice of a Presidential candidate is bound to be foremost in their minds. But with Congress still making the laws of the country, they have another decision quite as important in the selection of Representative for the 9th District. And the lines of the latter contest are by far the most clearly drawn; the choice is between Tom Eliot and Robert Luce, between a progressive and a dic-hard, between a philosophy of government geared to the needs of today and one suited to the problems of fifty years...
This week appeared Home Town, Sherwood Anderson's latter-day reflections on his favorite theme. It is a book of essays, richly illustrated by Farm Security Administration photographs. Anderson now lives in Marion, Va. (pop.: 4,156), where until recently he blithely published two newspapers, one Republican, one Democratic. Home Town muses on 1) the small town amid the moving pageant of the seasons, the varied U. S. regions-corn country, cotton country, coal country; 2) the town boy lured by the city, the city man's wistful memory of his old home; 3) the interplay of life...