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Third, Franklin Roosevelt made haste to take up the case of Maryland before it was too late. To draw the sting from his opposition to conservative Democrats he permitted another direct quote explaining that he was acting on principle: "If there is a good liberal running on the Republican ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Sermon on the Shore | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Aside from the obvious moral objection to diverting WPA's relief "wages" to political ends, the legal fact remained that the money is paid by the U. S. Treasury and that Section No. 208 of the U. S. Criminal Code specifically prohibits recipients of Federal funds from soliciting each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Money for Politics | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of the University of London is by turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Goad Joad | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

On the other side of the ledger there appears to be only the vague objection that somehow twenty associate members would miraculously destroy a feeling of unity in the minds of two hundred and fifty colleagues. It is hard to understand the point of view which would attribute the these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CASE OF THE HOMELESS 300 | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

Greek G is considered about the most intelligent elementary language course in the College. The only objection was that Leighton, one of the instructors, although generally commended for the interest of his classes was felt to be a little too easy-going on fundamental grammatical mistakes, causing trouble in more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

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