Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...survive under Franklin Roosevelt or anyone else, as a Liberal party beyond 1940, its ideas must be churned into the local electorates, right down into the precincts whence Congressional and Presidential majorities sprout; 4) Any political baron who will not join in the churning process had best be read out of the new party at once, even if that means local defeats this year. For 1940 will be a far more important, national year and if beginnings, however brutal, are made now, new Liberal machinery may be got ready by then...
...after Brown University (where he worked his way through, centred on the football scrubs) and Harvard Law School (where he led his class) was topped off by a year at the knee of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, great Liberal colleague of Ben Cohen's Brandeis. He used to read Greek classics aloud to the old gentleman, who followed him with an English trot to study the parsing. Dante and Montaigne were the young scholar's favorite writers. From those golden days he carried away a store of literary sparklers which today he sprinkles through Franklin Roosevelt...
...Forgotten Man's friend when Franklin Roosevelt wore short pants. Like John Llewellyn Lewis, he is a Welsh miner's son. He dug coal, aged 9, in the pits of Pennsylvania. A Sunday school teacher taught him to read. A parson and a lawyer helped him get learning and law, at night. He settled and practiced in Cumberland, a western Maryland mining town. He reached Congress...
...opened the Mexican Congress last week. As is their jealously guarded privilege, the Congressmen each wore a pistol. General Cardenas was in mufti, for he is the "New Deal" hero of underprivileged Mexicans. All Mexico was tense with anticipation, for New Dealer Cardenas had announced that he would read "the most important message to Congress delivered since my inauguration...
Because Adams knew everybody, read everything, traveled everywhere and wrote his letters as carefully as he wrote his books, they combined to give an astonishing picture of 60 years of U. S. life...