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...modes of life which had gone with it. Three thousand miles of ocean merely made his disassociation from the past more permanent. The disassociated colonist, in turn, produced the pioneer, who renouncing even the fragments of European culture remaining on the sea-board sought an outlet for his restless vigor in the conquest of the wilderness. The frontier vanished; industrialism offered a new channel for his boundless energies. The pioneer became the business man. Pragmatists like James and Dewey, mistaking a means for an end, furnished him a philosophy. The utilitarian process was complete...
Editor Daniels named no prospect, pushed no man's cause unless it were his own. But in Texas his Cabinet-mate, Albert Sidney Burleson, returned to pristine vigor, gave Democrats a Cause and a Man. Texan, Dry, Protestant, he called on his party to nominate Governor Alfred E. Smith, New Yorker, Wet, Roman Catholic. To newsgatherers he said: "If Smith is nominated, he will be elected. . .. Governor Smith stands for the same things that Woodrow Wilson stood for. Wilson stood for enforcement of law, and so does Smith. Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act and Smith is against...
...this irate old party . . . this touchy Jehovah . . . who preferred the savory smell of roast cutlets to the odors of boiled cabbage,* who sat in a burning bush or popped out from behind the rocks" (TIME, Jan. 24). Edward J. Murphy, devout Roman Catholic, prosecuted for the Crown with vigor, called Atheist Sterry's writings "scandalous, impious, blasphemous, profane and indecent." Judge Coatsworth, Sunday School Superintendent, charged the jury: "Nothing is more sacred to us than our religion. . . . We look upon the Bible as the basis of every good law in our country." The jury, devout men all, took only...
...will be elected on December 10, 1927, it was announced yesterday by Professor W. C. Greene, Secretary of the Committee of Selection of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The qualities considered in an applicant are manhood, force of character, leadership, literary and scholastic ability and attainments; and physical vigor as shown by interest in outdoor sports...
...died alone, at 44, shadowed by broken hopes, crying, "Let's fight on!" His comrades, echoing his cry, shouted of new vigor, new conquests to Communism. They saw one more hope, one more strong leader gone from a cause which, in the U. S., is, at least for the present, hopeless, leaderless...