Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Oehler Miller '37, of St. Louis, Missouri, won the Lee Wade prize for his rendition of Walter Lippmann's 1935 Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Address. The Wade prize carries a stipend...
Judicially stretching his indignation over the whole subject of legislative investigations, Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out that investigating committees act as both prosecutor and judge; put men on trial with no advance knowledge of the charges against them, no right to be represented by counsel, to call their own wit nesses or to cross-examine their accusers; operate with no procedure, no rules of evidence, no court of appeal, no jury ex cept the newspaper-reading public. "What should be proposed," boomed he, "is that Legislatures cease to regard themselves above the law, above the rules of equity and justice...
Wouldn't you know that Walter Lippmann would come out with his "high-times" and "needs-public-attentions" and "this-is-so-obvious-that-it ought-not-to-need-sayings" in direct, open opposition to Senator Black? I've not liked that young man much since his New Republic and Nation days...
...different opinion of General Hagood's offense was strongly put forward last week by Pundit Walter Lippmann: "He was testifying, remember, by invitation of Congress; he was testifying, remember too, at what he thought was a private meeting. He was making no public speech. He was conducting no propaganda. He was speaking solely to the body that under the Constitution originates money bills. Nearly two months later the committee published his remarks. General Hagood did not publish them...
...high time" (to quote Mr. Walter Lippmann) that all this high-faluting hypocrisy be exposed. Public Health my claw! Let me quote and read between a headline from the Boston Traveler: "EMERGENCY DECLARED AS STRIKE NEARS WALL STREET." But not until then, you may be sure, for what is public health in America but the health of Wall Street, what prosperity but more opportunities for Them to rob the windows and orphans of elevator boys...