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...Libertarian John William Davis, at the Founder's Day exercises of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn: "A mystical faith, similar to that of uncivilized mankind for their idols, is springing up around us. a faith by which we are called upon to submit all our problems to a being called the Government. . . . There have been people who lived rent free. Their economic status was perfectly secure. But they lived where other men told them to live and they worked where other men told them to work. They had security. They were the slaves of the South before the Civil...
...fairly panting for art? And whence the authority for the equally bromidic statement that New England's sterlity in the arts is due to its yen for censorship? How then do you account for the similar sterlity of say, New Orleans, or San Francisco, probably the most libertarian cities in the country...
...married a girl from Baton Rouge, went to Manhattan, published a novel (Laugh & Lie Down) which impressed critics. He has had seasoned, well-written book reviews in The New Outlook, The New Republic, the New York World-Telegram. Now in Boston, he is working with Lincoln Steffens, famed libertarian and muckraker, on a biography of Merchant Edward A. Filene...
Bostonians know Judge Lowell, whose mother was an Emerson, as the jurist who wears flashy cravats and lurid waistcoats, waves to friends from the bench, potters about with flowers. They like to bracket him as a legal libertarian with those other two Massachusetts justices, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. In 1930 Judge Lowell suffered a paralytic stroke that affected his walk. Last year when a Prohibition case based on wiretapping was before him, he effected an acquittal by addressing the jury thus: "We love to think of Uncle Sam as a thoroughly upright man. . . . Let us look...
Thereafter the business of the 20th Republican National Convention terminated briefly. Charles Irwin, an old news paperman, seasoned in U. S. politics since the forgotten days when young Boies Penrose was a Libertarian, watched the dele gates file out of the Stadium. "The Dutch," commented he, "have taken Holland...