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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of a 12,000-word review of world affairs, Orator Litvinoff devoted 3,000 words to the Japanese menace, 1,500 words to the German. Both these nations, he seemed to think, might attack Soviet Russia without warning at almost any moment...
...newspapers "The Sage of Potato Hill," and the "Kansas Diogenes," Ed Howe was not, as such titles suggested, a small-town Jeremiah, muttering philippic nonsense. His autobiography, Plain People, Heywood Broun called "prose of a sort to make every other journalist bite his nails with envy." The Saturday Review of Literature referred to him as the "spiritual legatee of Benjamin Franklin" because of his curt adages and his printshop background. Intelligent Kansans whom Ed Howe last week stopped rebuking for the first time in 60 years approve of him. At a dinner on the 50th anniversary of the founding...
...following review of "The Economics of the Recovery Program", a book by seven Harvard economists expressing their opinions on the President's Recovery program, which was released early this week, was written for the Crimson by Alan R. Sweezy '29, former President of the Crimson, and at present Instructor and Tutor in Economics...
...valuable though such clarifications and criticisms are they are by no means the whole story on the economic aspects of the Roosevelt Administration's program. I think I can perhaps best make clear what I have in mind by contrasting the set of papers here under review with the utterances of the group of economists who, in one capacity or another, are connected with the Administration. As to rank in their profession there is little to choose between the two groups; it is quite inconceivable that the Washington group should be unaware of such criticisms and objections as are offered...
...authority. Critics accuse him of dogmatism, prejudice, oversimplification, but plain readers find him exciting. Harvardman (1900), he began his career as a lowly reporter for the New York Tribune, slogged his way up through reams of copy to be Washington correspondent and editorial writer. After he went to the Review of Reviews (1914) it reached its peak...