Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tribute by the present editors gives one a legitimate pride in having had anything at all to do with such an apostolic succession. Here are some of the names contained in it: Norman Hapgood, William Vaughn Moody, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Alan Seegar, Van Wyck Brooks, John Dos Passos, Walter Lippmann--the catalogue should really be given in full. It is too trite an observation to venture, that when these and other undergraduates were trying their wings in the "Monthly" their names meant not a whit more to the reading public than those of our young contemporaries who figure in this...
...which accorded with the facts of the previous hundred years may have to be modified to permit gov- ornmont to assume its new responsibilities--to break the severity of depressions in a world that has seen semi-monopoly and corporate organization throttle free competition and the entrpreneur, Unlike Walter Lippmann, Hoover does not advocate that we solve all our problems by waving the common law in the face of the United States Steel Corporation...
Pundit Walter Lippmann opined: "I should have no doubt myself that the President's offer is sincere. For while he and certain of his supporters might feel at a loss during election time if they did not have the utilities for a scapegoat, Mr. Roosevelt's offer is in entire accord with his most practical political necessities. Thus, although he does not need political peace with the utilities, he very urgently needs an economic peace...
Here is the final rampart on which Mr. Lippmann must defeat his distention between the New Deal overhead control and liberalism's social control--i.e. commissions at this point. He answers that the officials who inspect, prosecute, and administer must be regarded as exercising merely certain rights and duties instead of possessing the attributes of majesty. When one remembers that the New Deal's Commissions act only under the mandate of Congressional statutes and the threat of judicial review, Mr. Lippmann's collapse seems miserably final and complete...
...inconsistency made Senator Ashurst stand out in politics, by the same standard Walter Lippmann is noteworthy among pundits. He attacks the whole conception of pressure groups and then writes a program that inevitably brings them into being; he stresses the limitation of man and then suggests projects whose administration would tax the wisest of men; he attacks the judiciary's conception of property rights and then tries to repose his social control largely in the hands of the same judiciary; he attacks the Providential State and then builds a liberal state that provides innumerable services for its citizens; he rages...