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Most solemn warning came in a message from Historian James Truslow Adams, too ill to attend the hearings in person: "Even in the United States the power of one man has become almost overwhelming. The longer it lasts, the more strongly entrenched it may become. If we break with usage and tradition and allow a man to retain such powers for twelve years in stead of eight, why not for 16, 20, or for life? Our world is changing fast and it can always be said that there is a crisis...
EMPIRE ON THE SEVEN SEAS-James Truslow Adams-Scribner...
...James Truslow Adams' handling of modern Britain is considerably less critical, less comfortable than his treatment of the 19th Century. Toward the end many readers may suspect that his attitude toward interwar British foreign policy is that the less said the better; he performs a complete weasel on the relations between Britain and Continental powers in the 1930s...
...Frank Capra has created something close to dynamite in motion picture form. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", like all Capra pictures, makes you laugh, cry, and sit on the edge of your seat in suspense. But this time Capra has gone a step further: he has portrayed what James Truslow Adams calls the "American dream." Granted that the picture is emotional to the nth degree, the fact remains that democracy, Americanism--call it what you will--is more a matter of emotion than cold logic. When an American sees the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, he does not see merely...
...making gifts of broadcasting rights to F.T.R.D., authors have been equally generous. James Truslow Adams gave them his The Epic of America for an MBS series, Mary Roberts Rinehart her Tish stories for CBS broadcasting. Most lavish gift of all came from Medical Crusader Paul de Kruif, who has turned over his radio rights to Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters, Men Against Death, Why Keep Them Alive, The Fight for Life. Dramatization of all these books in order went into production this week, will be a CBS coast-to-coaster Thursday evenings at 8 beginning June 30. NBC's projected...