Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than two years the United States has had a government divided within itself," declared Walter Lippmann '10, in an exclusive CRIMSON interview by long distance telephone from Long Island late last night...
...final mood of a campaign is mostly illusion born of hope and fear," said Mr. Lippmann, as he went on to discuss the last days of the campaign and sum up some of his recent statements. "No public question is discussed on its merits. It is hardly possible to trust the candidates to make reliable statements of fact. Their versions of what happened in the past become so distorted by their anxiety to persuade that they are positively grotesque. One can watch the process of intellectual disintegration as the candidates keep on talking through the interminable weeks of the campaign...
Sixteen years ago President Wilson thought he was as good as defeated by Charles Evans Hughes in an election which seemed to mean War or Peace. Democratic clamor against a change of White House leadership seemed to be falling on deaf ears. Pundit Lippmann's bit of history...
...being mother of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton, Nobel Prizeman Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago and Economist Wilson Martindale Compton; Dr. Roberts Andrews Millikan (cosmic ray opponent of Arthur Holly Compton), by the Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams''; Social Worker Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull House), by an LL. D. from Swarthmore College...
...sectarianism and stale prettiness, most of the editors were pleased to the point of enthusiasm. Editor Edward T. Leech of the Pittsburgh Press, "strongly impressed," could find no criticism to make. Editor Bingay predicted that Dr. Newton would gain an even bigger following in his field than Walter Lippmann (New York Herald Tribune, Chicago Daily News, et al.) in politics...