Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Lippmann, in an article entitled, "The Great Wickersham Mystery," in the April number of Vanity Fair, has written an exceptionally keen analysis of the prohibition problem. Basing his argument on the internal evidence provided by the Wickersham Report, Mr. Lippmann accuses the present administration of pursuing the policy of nullification under cover of dry legislation...
Evidence supplied by the Report itself, Mr. Lippmann shows. proved that the Commission's most important conclusion was reversed after it had been agreed upon by the majority, and he also pointed out that the Commission issued a summary, previous to the publication of the text, which misrepresented the actual findings of the committee. Presidential interference, it is implied, was responsible for the abandonment of its first stand in opposition to continuing constitutional prohibition as it now exists and the consequent substitution of a directly contrary conclusion. Lippmann interprets this as proof that the administration is adhering to the policy...
...Lippmann went to work as a World editorial writer on Jan. i. 1921. Editor Cobb died in 1923. Lippmann was put in charge of the editorial page in 1924. Five years later the full title of Editor was conferred upon...
What the profession admired most about Lippmann editorials was their compelling logic and persuasive reasonableness. But at times?as during the crusade against Peonage and the attacks on the Harding Gang and the "Aluminum Trust'' ?he could put by his composed objectivity and then the World would lash out with its oldtime fire. It is common knowledge that the editorials read most regularly and closely by President Hoover were those in the arch-Democratic New York World. Reason: Besides being close friends and mutual admirers, Herbert Hoover and Walter Lippmann have in common a passion for fairness which each...
...evolution of Liberal Lippmann's political ideas is charted less clearly in his editorials than in his books (Drift and Mastery, The Political Scene, Public Opinion, The Phantom Public, Men of Destiny, American Inquisitors, A Preface to Morals). And it is a paradox that his exercise of the Liberal Spirit has brought him to a position which most Liberals would excoriate. He began with a stout faith in the workings of popular democracy and the benefits of collective action. But his newspaper experience gradually bred in him a distrust (again, like Hoover's) of so-called Public Opinion, the judgments...