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Recently George Horace Gallup's Institute of Public Opinion asked Professor Bagley and Teachers College's famed Emeritus Professor William Heard Kilpatrick, leading spokesman for the Progressives, to define the Progressive v. Traditional issue in a question to be put to voters. After two days' travail, each of the professors brought Dr. Gallup half of a 110-word question. Dr. Gallup threw up his hands, abandoned the idea. The question...
Whether or not this literary travail would eventually bring forth a few small mountains or a mammoth mouse, the first U. S. guides evoked far more literary enthusiasm than official publications usually raise. Said Critic Lewis Mumford as the first volumes appeared, "These guidebooks are the finest contribution to American patriotism that has been made in our generation." Said New York Times''s Robert Duffus, as the full nation-wide scope of the Project appeared: "The guides . . . will enable us for the first time to hold the mirror up to all America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced...
...camp of the Phillistines we find the two defeated war horses Hoover and Landon, unreconciled even in their hour of travail. Neither of these former champions have ever seemed peculiarly ingrained in the affections of the American people but Senator Vandenburg is a man of different caliber and definitely the most quietly impressive figure in the "grand old party." That he will wear upon his sage and untroubled brow the republican laurel in the next election, is a fairly universal opinion...
Last week, in the brooding eloquence that springs so naturally from his Welsh heritage, John L. Lewis declared: "Out of the agony and travail of economic America the C. I. O. was born. To millions of Americans, exploited without stint by corporate industry and socially debased beyond the understanding of the fortunate, its coming was as welcome as the dawn to the night watcher. . . . It is now and henceforth a definite instrumentality destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal course of the Republic...
Sublime Conceit Sirs: In the interest of the record, and in order to save future historians much time, trouble and travail, will TIME, "the ablest historian of our day," search out the facts and report, definitely and unequivocally if possible, on the question of who first uttered that sublime conceit, "As goes Maine, so goes Vermont." MORRIS FREEDMAN Hollywood, Calif...