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...recently in Topeka. "All the evil forces of corruption which are attracted by the prospect of political spoils have left the Republican fold and attached themselves to the opposition. Let them go! As a party we have been deloused. . . . Get America back on the payroll." A middle-of-the-roader, with geography on his side, Candidate Knox to-day waits & watches his chance to disclose himself and his ambitions...
...Peek's place, Chester C. Davis took charge of AAA. "Chet" Davis is not a man of Mr. Peek's sort, not a man of Mr. Frank's. Economically he stood somewhat closer to Jerome Frank, but he was a middle-of-the-roader in economics and in disposition. In AAA's legal department Frank and his satellites, including Francis Shea, Lee Pressman, Victor Rotnem, flashed their rapiers, determined to slice the profits off processors and middlemen and present them to the farmers. In AAA's Information Division, Consumers' Counsel Frederick C. Howe...
Last week, as in all weeks round Christmas time, few U. S. books were published. Far & away the best of those that were is Author Robert Melvin Coates' Yesterday's Burdens. Too far to the left for many a middle-of-the-roader, this novel is squarely in the centre of the modern experimental path-a path broad enough to accommodate Ulysses and the books of John Dos Passes, but on which such backtracking behemoths as Anthony Adverse never set hoof. Fated to be overlooked or judged "queer" by the general reader, Yesterday's Burdens will excite...
...pastor of Pittsburgh's Shadyside Presbyterian Church. The past five years, since the reorganization of his church's boards, he has been president of its board of Christian education. In Presbyterian theology neither the Liberal nor Conservative groups can claim him. He is a congenial "middle-of-the-roader." The last two years he gained reputation outside his denomination by daily radio talks over Westinghouse's station KDKA, including midnight addresses to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and other explorers...
Than Railroader Loree no living rail roader is more famed or more acute. He was not asking Santa Claus for these rail roads; he was asking the Interstate Com merce Commission. And even had he asked the I. C. C. for the New York Central, Pennsylvania, B. & 0. and other miscellaneous billion-dollar lines, his plea would have received earnest attention...