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...shortest and swiftest route to the heart of the White House. He does not make up the President's mind for him but he supplies the raw material on which that mind is made up. What Postmaster General Farley & Col. Howe are to President Roosevelt in the realm of practical politics Dr. Moley is to him in the realm of political practice. Raymond Moley has come far by his own wits since his humble birth at Berea, Ohio, outside Cleveland. His grandfather, Hippolyte Moley, was a Frenchman who went to Trinity College, Dublin, married an Irish woman. A precocious...
...other hand, there would be some danger of the course becoming a superficial though civilizing holiday in the realm of the newer classics. It would be wise, on this account, to limit such a course to concentrators in English and a small quota from related fields, requiring occasional written critiques from the students. In this way a thorough and permanent course could be organized to combine the features of the now defunct course on English Critics and Critical Technique given by Professor I. A. Richards two years ago, and English 26 which Mr. T. S. Eliot is giving this year...
Shakespeare wrote enthusiastically about "This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England." He also wrote, as well he might, in those old days, before the flying machine and submarine...
...Shakespeare could have made this trip across the AMERICAN CONTINENT, INSPECTING THIS EARTH, THIS REALM, THIS UNITED STATES, he might have written a better, bigger poem...
...there is no reason to be over-optimistic about the extent of the tariff reductions which will be made, nevertheless Roosevelt's new bargaining position renders it conceivable that a quadrilateral monetary agreement can be reached to revive international exchange from its present coma. Nor is it beyond the realm of sanity to hope that the United States will be able to force a reasonable settlement of the aged war debt problem. Whatever the internal effects of the abandonment of the gold standard may prove to be, it offers a handy instrument for Mr. Roosevelt to wield at the coming...