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...pensioners must be required to spend their doles within 30 days, in the U. S. That would put nearly $2,000,000,000 into circulation every month. Trade would boom, wages soar. Each $200 would keep one worker busy for a month supplying its demands. It would be Utopia. Every young person would be busy and good and free of fear for the future; every oldster would have ease and plenty without effort...
With his radical EPIC program (TIME, Sept. 3), Upton Sinclair defeated George Creel, a liberal Democrat backed by the McAdoo machine, by a 3-to-2 plurality. The greatest Sinclair strength was developed in and around Los Angeles, home of Aimee Semple McPherson, Cecil B. DeMille and Utopia, Inc. At the same time the Republicans nominated by an even heavier plurality a thoroughgoing conservative, Acting Governor Frank F. Merriam. Inevitable result: California's November election will be fought not on party lines but on the issue of economic radicalism and experimentation. That issue definitely jeopardizes the Democrats' chance of carrying...
...have had leadership and the satisfying feeling that something has been done to meet the situation. Moreover business has improved and our psychology is better. It is not so much a consideration of the merits of a different system although there is a general impression we are heading towards Utopia; it is not a consideration whether things would have improved anyway; in any case, it is heartfelt approval of the new invigorating influence which has entered the government and of the "new deal" for people of small incomes. This change has been encouraging in that it reveals that the College...
...taste of freshly gathered fruit by suspended animation of both enzymes and micro-organisms.- Researcher Charles S. Ash of California Packing Corp. Tartly the New York Times summed up the symposium: "The responses reveal 300 leaders fluttering unimaginatively on the ground. ... It is impossible for them to conceive Utopia without our cement, our improved bakery, our metal furniture, our tractors, our rustless wire-rope, our quick-drying lacquers...
...doctrines of Utopia he brought to Paris and he set them against the worldly knowledge of ancient Europe. Because he saw a vision he felt the people could not perish. In this spirit he sought to make a peace with the aid of a politician who had received his mandate from the people on the platform of "Hang the Kaiser" and a statesman called the "Tiger." Before the bitterness and diplomacy of these men the dream shriveled, concession followed concession, the concert of the nations lapsed into dissonance, and the dreamer returned to the repudiation of his own people...