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Charles II. Howell, Radford police chief, last night told the CRIMSON that a Mrs. W. B. Thurman had identified Burgess from the picture on the police poster, as had two local barbers. The man said his name was Donald Hicks, and gave the Chicago address of his sales manager to subscribers...
...like the A.F. of L. Tammany will fight on. As Thurman Arnold points out: "Institutions once formed have the persistence of all living things. ... Even when their utility both to the public and their own members has disappeared, they still survive." Tammany still bivouacs some of its cohorts in state departments; it still elects Assemblymen, State Senators, and Congressmen; it still makes judges. It will not obey any orders to disband. It will not be destroyed until it is beaten by another Democratic organization that combines the patronage, prestige, and mass support of the New Deal with the morale...
...Thurman Wesley Arnold is just the kind of irreverent, ready-witted jack-of-all-trades whose presence with the New Deal in Washington since 1933 both businessmen and old-line politicians have found irritating. An amateur politician, he was once the sole Democrat in the Wyoming Legislature and served a term as mayor of his home city of Laramie. A stout New Dealer, he has worked for his friend Jerome Frank as Assistant General Counsel of AAA, for his friend Bill Douglas as trial examiner for the SEC, for his friend Robert H. Jackson as a special consultant...
...Thurman Arnold had poured into it all his talents as a trial lawyer, writing an indictment of the ideas of opponents of the New Deal which was calculated to delight all those who already agreed with him and titillate to the point of apoplexy all those who did not. His formula was simple: to turn popular economic beliefs upside down and apply tar with a brush so broad as to hide the occasions when he begged the question and otherwise offended logic...
Result was a stimulating book to warm the heart or ruffle the hackles of every born controversialist. By the folklore of capitalism Thurman Arnold means "those ideas about social organization which are not regarded as folklore but accepted as fundamental principles of law and economics." He sets out to show that the lot of them are myths. Among the "myths" he attacks...