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Were the cast study one of a reactionary chief executive ousting a college president for refusing to force teacher's oath on his faculty it would be more clear cut. But even a Progressive La Follette can, perhaps unconsciously, trammel the freedom he professes to hold dear. Fortunately there will be a public hearing on the case. If the evidence warrants removal there can be no complaint. But distressing and disastrous will it be if the power motive seems to stimulate such action...
...Iowa's Brookhart), $500,000,000 River & Harbor development (Minnesota's Shipstead), $30,000,000 free wheat distribution by Federal Farm Board (Kansas' Capper), $50,000,000 increased War Veterans pension (Alabama's Black), $150,000,000 public works (Illinois' Glenn), $10,000.000 Mediterranean fruit fly relief (Florida's Trammel), $100,000,000 free jobless relief (Massachusetts' Walsh). A half dozen measures have been introduced in the House providing for $4,000,000,000 to cash soldier bonus certificates...
...about to make my point. . " . 2. I am now making my point. ... 3. I have just made my point"-time-honored prescription for effective exposition. No such precepts trammel Thornton Wilder, apparently indifferent to getting his point across. Says he in a luminous foreword to 16 playlets, "I have composed some forty of these plays, for I had discovered a literary form that satisfied my passion for compression. Since the time when I began to read I had become aware of the needless repetition, the complacency in most writing." The form he discovered requires but three minutes and three characters...
Florida is said to be "modernized" politically. Wealthy Republicans from the North have changed many things. But last week, Florida's Democrats demonstrated that they, at least, have not changed. Governor John W. Martin competed for the Senate seat of Park Trammel, comrade...
Alabama's curious Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope. Senator Trammel emerged untrammeled. He beat Governor Martin by some 30,000 votes. Anti-Smith convention delegates were likewise elected. And, in the Fourth Congressional District, U. S. Representative William J. Sears lost out to Tradition as embodied in the 43-year-old daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, "The Little Commoner." A War nurse, Chautauqua lecturer, energetic personality, Mrs. Owen laid stress upon her own abilities rather than her father's fame...