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Dissension put aside, every Democratic face beamed friendship. Senator King, head of the subcommittee which drafted the vehement report which recommended that the President's Court Bill be rejected so overwhelmingly that no similar proposal would ever be made "to the free representatives of the free people," came and put his arm affectionately round Alben Barkley's shoulder. Senator Pat Harrison, defeated by one vote for the post which Barkley won, spoke in tribute to his successful rival. Franklin Roosevelt actually did not appear in person but Vice President Garner, wise, red-faced old man of the Senate...
Adolf Hitler, less explicit though not less vehement, declared: "It is not God who divides us, but human beings. . . . No power within or without the Reich will keep us from going our way to our Future...
...suffering, literary experiment and revolution, frustration and release. But the most comprehensive discontent is expressed in a lengthy article by Arthur Rosenbloom, "Hara-kiri in the Ivory Tower". Mr. Rosenbloom uses the Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts and Sciences as his springboard, and from it launches into a vehement stream of reflections on the plight of the modern academic intellectual. Exposing with more vigor than originality the impotence of idealistic reformers, he concludes "If the intellectuals are faced with the alternative of continuing their search for the truth or setting the world free, they had better choose the truth...
Majority Leader Robinson, who until President Roosevelt's return had been one of the most vehement in calling for action on the Sit-Down, leaped into action as Administration field marshal, bellowed that Senator Byrnes was proposing to turn striking miners and their families who lived in company houses "out into the storm," that a Senate pronouncement would only "inflame" Labor disputes, demanded that the amendment be referred to. the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee for study...
...Pilgrim No. 1 was Acting Secretary George Novack of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, whose most eminent member is Socialist Norman Thomas, no pilgrim as yet. Last June the Trotskyist Communists of the U. S. merged with the Thomasist Socialists. Normally benign, Mr. Thomas becomes vehement if given opportunity to deny "the canard" that perhaps Trotsky and Stalin are not altogether sincere undoers of each other's work. In the Thomas camp it is an article of faith that Stalin, as Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is an enemy of "true Socialism...