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Splenetic Herbert George (Outline of History) Wells is a historian whose interest in the remote past is based on his interest in the immediate present. He also brandishes words like a Martian. From the sickbed where he has lain for months, the 78-year-old socialist last week sent London...
By a Senate vote of 49-to-30, the Ruml plan captured its Bizerte and Tunis. But the Administration was still fighting, and further resistance was due in the House this week. The President might still veto it, with a scorching philippic calculated to produce plenty of ammunition for 1944...
Almost before Lewis finished his philippic against J. P. Morgan, the President was busily inditing another plea: "Whatever may be the issues between you and Mr.
That each generation of undergraduates should exercise its prerogative to tar and feather the teaching staff -- typographically speaking--is a healthy thing, and the most recent essay in that direction, Mr. Bunde's philippic in the Progressive, manifests unusual insight not only into problems of pedagogy but into the larger...
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Illinois' dudish oldster, who plays along closely with the New Deal, harried angry Senator Robinson by asking for an explanation '"why the amendment is necessary at all . . . if it is already in the power of the President to use his discretion as to the...