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...sonorous and flexible voice, his delivery easy, President Roosevelt dwelt on the meaning of TVA. "When I first passed this place . . . there flowed here a vagrant stream, sometimes shallow and useless, sometimes turbulent and in flood, always dark with the soil it had washed from the eroding hills. . . . There were and are those who maintain that the development of the enterprise that lies largely in this State is not a proper activity of Government. As for me, I glory in it as one of the great social and economic achievements of the United States...
Besides their great literary contemporaries, the Lambs were friends with such characters as Thomas Manning, the vagrant Orientalist, who always carried peppers in his pockets; Charles Lloyd, a neurotic Quaker, whose piano thumping drove Charles Lamb to write The Old Familiar Faces; George Dyer, who could never distinguish between prose and poetry, was so near-sighted that he once disappeared into a river while the Lambs' maid was watching. Doctors sometimes advised Charles Lamb that this eccentric circle was not the healthiest one for a spinster afflicted with intermittent lunacy. But Mary Lamb seems to have felt quite...
...attended the State Democratic convention in Aberdeen. That decided him that the whole trouble with the country was professional politicians, who, controlling the votes of non-property owners, the ignorant, the vagrant, the parasitic, dominated elections at the expense of home owners. Mr. Wittwer sat down and thought till he thought up a cure: give an extra vote to every man who can show a tax receipt for a home or a piece of property.* The name Otto Wittwer gave to his system for knocking out the politicians : the One-Two Plan...
...whole thing is perhaps too casual for the stage, which, though always professing to hold the mirror up to nature, yammers if things are not catchily focused, neatly glued together, sharply climaxed. Morning's at Seven not only builds toward very little, but is vagrant in method, minor in tone. It just happens to be amusing, persuasive, lifelike...
...soap-box rabble rouser but a kindly, even-spoken man, Earl Browder does a good patient job among earnest Party workers, achieves publicity for his cause only by maneuvering into headline situa tions. Not altogether undeserved was his arrest as a vagrant. During the campaign he has traveled 26,000 miles, mostly in day coaches, shuttling about the country, visiting 26 States. Last week, while Negro James W. Ford, Communist Vice-Presidential Nominee, was hopping about to Nashville, Richmond, Durham, Harlem, Earl Browder decided to play return engagements at his two most successful stands. Of his first visit to Terre...