Word: smyth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dame Ethel Smyth, 86, Eng land's top woman composer (Mass in D), writer (As Time Went On), onetime suffragette; in Woking, Surrey. Mannish Dame Ethel was once jugged for throwing a brick through the Home Secretary's window. She also smoked cigars...
...Smyth, one of Historian Beard's Socratic-dialoguers, passes through Professor Beard's study at Hosannah Hill, selects therefrom copies of TIME and Plato's Republic...
...Hamilton) hailed the Constitution as a "people's document." The privilege of the "writ of habeas corpus," which guarantees individuals and groups against arbitrary imprisonment, covered everybody, not merely the "rich, wellborn and able." At one point in the symposium on "A More Perfect Union and Justice," Dr. Smyth tries to get Beard to admit that Hamilton believed in "Federalist party justice." But the indefatigable Uncle Charles again routs Dr. Smyth since Hamilton vigorous ly attacked the Federalist-inspired Sedition Act of 1798. "Let us not establish a tyranny," said Hamilton. "Energy is a very different thing from violence...
...surprising that the book, published under the Platonic title of The Republic, should also be cast in the form of a series of Platonic (or Socratic) dialogues. To his study high up on a Connecticut hillside overlooking the Housatonic valley, Charlie Beard has invited an imaginary Dr. and Mrs. Smyth and a few imaginary friends for a series of evening seminars...
Much of the work of the alphabetical agencies has been, to Beard, a species of "economic thimblerigging." But to Dr. Smyth, who was a Liberty Leaguer in 1936, Beard insists that the New Deal has stayed pretty well within the bounds of constitutionalism. The Founding Fathers, says Beard, did not believe in the doctrines of economic laissez faire that are usually attributed to Adam Smith. They were, as a matter of fact, 18th-Century "mercantilists" in their primary economic assumptions. Their "mercantilism" implied a belief in Federal interference with economic matters and they expressly gave Congress the power to "regulate...