Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political theory receives marked attention, for when the first of these articles were written, the swing to dictatorship in Europe was stirring alarm, or sometimes enthusiasm, in America. Mr. Lippmann thinks, doubtless, more in economic than in political terms; and, convinced democrat though he is, he realizes that democratic civilization, is something of a luxury, that will not work without a decent measure of security for nations as well as individuals...
Last week two great journalistic institutions formally renounced allegiance to Franklin Roosevelt. They were the Baltimore Sun and Walter Lippmann...
Returning to his column in the New York Herald Tribune after a two-month vacation, Pundit Lippmann, long one of the President's most sympathetic critics, flatly announced: "I am going to vote for Governor Landon." His reason: There are no great issues between the two Parties. Both accept what the Supreme Court has left of the New Deal. But whereas President Roosevelt has unnecessarily alienated the support of Business and established a personal and factional government, Governor Landon, if elected, will be checked by a Democratic Senate, hence forced to constitute a Government of "national union" such...
Inquired President Roosevelt when asked at a press conference for comment on Pundit Lippmann's decision: "Has he started again? He must have had a good holiday...
...which in 99 years of supporting Democratic Presidential candidates has been unable to stomach only William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and 1908, did not go so far as Pundit Lippmann. Never more vigorously oldline Democratic than in its indictment of the Roosevelt ventures toward planned economy and its confession of faith in low tariff, State rights, "economic liberalism," the Sun forlornly concluded...