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Those lectures did not deserve the name of lectures, which at Harvard had come to be a synonym for dullness. The scenes of flatboats on the Ohio, and Germans and Yankees moving into the North-west side by side to carve out Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, were not lecture scenes. Nor were the discussions about what drove these people on into the West. The vision of free lands, cattle, and finally wheat drew them like a magnet, and drew their sons across the Mississippi and onto the plains. And the people sitting in the wagons which creaked through...
...same time Harvard meetings are notoriously one-sided; "Discussion" is often a synonym for heckling. On whatever viewpoint, a speaker at such a meeting is usually as unequivocal as a Nazi ballot and we often resent the missionary zeal which that implies. Many issues of the greatest importance, such as problems of race and labor, and plans for a post war international order, we must work out on a slow and logical basis. I refuse to choose between Organizations with a Cause, and a non-partisan Union. We vitally need both. Hugh Barhour...
There has probably never been a literary reincarnation like this. To U.S. men of draft age, Frank Merriwell is a vague synonym for a ninth-inning home run or a last-minute touchdown. But to an older generation, he was as vividly real a person as Superman or Tarzan is to youngsters today. Gilbert Patten, under the pseudonym of "Burt L. Standish," wrote the first Merriwell book in 1896, kept on writing at the rate of 20,000 or more words a week for nearly 20 years. Insatiably, week after week, legions of boys gobbled him up between paper covers...
More remarkable was the case of Republic Steel's Tom Girdler. During the campaign his name was used by Candidate Roosevelt as a synonym for enemy-of-the-people. At year's end, tough Tom Girdler's emissaries were in Washington and Wall Street, working on a deal to carry out one of the President's pet ideas: an integrated steel company on the West Coast (there is none) to supply booming Pacific shipyards...
This was too much for Germany. Though Quisling's name had become a worldwide synonym for traitor, though his domestic political backing had proved illusory, he appeared the only possible German straw man. Press criticism of him was forbidden and Alfred Nilsen, editor of the Norwegian Labor Party's Arbeiderbladet, was jailed for expressing "degrading judgments" of "an exponent of National Socialism...